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The hardest part of any revolutionary discovery, including CRISPR, is turning potential into impact. In molecular and cellular biology, this happens through the development of tools that exploit and expand our current knowledge. The Abudayyeh-Gootenberg lab (also called the ...
Originally published Jan 27, 2015 and last updated Dec 17, 2020. This post was contributed by Jordan Ward who is an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Emerging CRISPR/Cas9 editing technologies have transformed the palette of experiments possible in ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Leo Vo, a PhD candidate in the Sternberg Lab at Columbia University Medical Center. DNA transposons are ubiquitous genetic elements capable of spreading within and between genomes, and have been adapted for a wide variety of ...
This blog post was originally written by Caroline LaManna, published Mar 8, 2016. The updated and expanded version by Nyla Naim was published Sept 3, 2020. Scientists around the world have been making major improvements to CRISPR technology since its initial applications for ...
Originally published Dec 7, 2017 and updated Jul 2, 2020. Promoters may be the star of gene regulation, but enhancers and chromatin looping play important supporting roles. Enhancers are cis regulatory DNA sequences that, when bound by transcription factors, can increase a ...
If you’re using CRISPR to make a genome edit, how do you know if your CRISPR experiment was successful in your organism or cell type? You can use DNA sequencing or other molecular cloning techniques to determine CRISPR/sgRNA efficiency of an experiment and confirm the correct ...
Originally published Aug 30, 2018 and updated April 16, 2020. Sensitive and specific nucleic acid detection is crucial for clinical diagnostics, genotyping, and biotechnological advancements. Many methods of nucleic acid detection however, either lack the sensitivity or the ...
