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  1. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ...the AAV genome can integrate at double-stranded break points caused by CRISPR-Cas9 editing. The good news...., Corey, D. P., Aryee, M. J., Joung, J. K., Breakefield, X. O., Maguire, C. A., & György, B. (2019). ... AAV vector integration into CRISPR-induced DNA breaks. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/...
  2. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    ...deletions) without introducing DNA double-strand breaks (Anzalone et al., 2019; Chen & Liu, 2023). This...Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA. Nature, 576(7785), 149–157. https...chromatin context on Cas9-induced DNA double-strand break repair pathway balance. Molecular Cell, 81(10), ...
  3. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    ...endonuclease Cas9 to create a DNA double stranded break (DSB) at a genomic site specified by a guide RNA... sequence. Users can design gRNAs to induce the break at a specific genomic site and, using the endogenous...homology directed repair after a CRISPR/Cas9 induced break. Learn more about these constructs and the cell ...
  4. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    ...multiple teams or to stay abreast of current trends in the literature, sampling a breadth of work from a field...subsequent meetings. The number of participants, breadth of the discussed topic, and level of general busy-ness...
  5. Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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    ...the abdomen. Long story short, when asbestos is breathed in (or less frequently, ingested), it can get ...like lung (about 224,000 diagnosed this year) or breast cancer (about 246,000 diagnosed this year). Research... to detect mesothelioma earlier than ever. From breath tests to blood tests, researchers are hopeful that...
  6. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...CRISPR/Cas9 edits that rely on double strand DNA breaks. Due to this inefficiency it is crucial for scientists.../10.1093/nar/gkaa124 Martin AS, Salamango DJ, Serebrenik AA, Shaban NM, Brown WL, Harris RS (2019) A panel...s41598-018-36739-9 St. Martin A, Salamango D, Serebrenik A, Shaban N, Brown WL, Donati F, Munagala U, ...
  7. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    ...crunch, your break can be as simple as a few minutes of meditation or a walk to the break room for a sip...going throughout these challenging times.  Take a Break! If all else fails, one of the best things you can...
  8. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    ...single-stranded nick. In order to produce a double stranded break, two sgRNAs must be used to target two Cas9-nickases...achieve your precise edit without even making a break.  Base editors are dead Cas9 (dCas9) or nCas9 enzymes...converts a C to U without producing a double strand break.   Prime editors are the second generation of...
  9. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    ...to account for the effects of Cas9-induced dsDNA breaks. Are off-target cutting patterns in genome-wide...control for the effects of guide expression and dsDNA breaks. Figure 2: Non-targeting vs. safe-targeting...inherent effects, or background noise, of dsDNA breaks caused by CRISPR. See supplemental figure 6 for...
  10. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    ...the rat (Gibbs, et al., 2004). Additionally, breakthroughs in gene modification tools and methods such ...organism; they are relatively simple to maintain and breed and they have large, easily modifiable embryos, ...frog research is The National Xenopus Resource, a breeding facility for X. laevis and X. tropicalis, the ...
  11. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...select for desirable traits using traditional plant breeding approaches, these techniques are cumbersome, often...repair, these methods do not involve double strand break (DSB) formation and do not require donor DNA, . ...Simultaneous editing of three homoeoalleles in hexaploid bread wheat confers heritable resistance to powdery mildew...
  12. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    ...you obtained the desired chimeric mice, you would breed them many times, hoping to produce a mouse with ...need to remove the selection marker, likely by breeding to a mouse line with a recombinase. If it turned... insert two loxP sites. Since two double-strand breaks are made, it is common to see deletions of the ...
  13. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ... is usually accomplished by Cas9-mediated dsDNA breaks: following a cut, the error-prone nature of non-homologous...although this is rarely done). When targeting a dsDNA break for HDR, the choice of target site is far more constrained...which makes DNA changes in the absence of dsDNA breaks (Rees et al., 2018). For C>T and A>G base editors...
  14. Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence

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    ...marker like the Hoechst stain for the nuclei. (See Brewer et al, 2022 for a sample protocol.)  Simultaneous... Nguyen, K., Van Der List, D., Murray, K. D., Engebrecht, J., & Trimmer, J. S. (2019). A toolbox of IgG... 8, e43322. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43322 Brewer, M., McDonough, L., Zhu, Y., Neumann, E., De Caestecker...
  15. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    ...homology arms of 35-80 bp, and DNA double-strand breaks up to 54 bp from the desired insertion site result...knock-in efficiency, presumably by channeling DNA breaks into the homologous recombination repair pathway...interesting to note that recipients for the 2015 Breakthrough Prize included Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle...
  16. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    ...protein, first block the Golgi apparatus with Brefeldin A to inhibit secretion and then follow the typical...NK) cells.   Tips for flow cytometry success Break up cell clumps Success in a flow cytometry experiment...the sample through a nylon mesh cell strainer to break up clumps before running on the instrument. To sustain...
  17. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    ...development (Grimm & Lavis, 2022). With the wide breadth of fluorescent tools that have been developed throughout...is an important consideration for assay design (Breen et al., 2016). When selecting dyes, it's important...(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78827-9 Breen, C. J., Raverdeau, M., & Voorheis, H. P. (2016)....
  18. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ...al. 2022. Image created with BioRender.com. Abbreviations: AAV, adeno-associated virus; GRE, gene regulatory.../ENEURO.0373-21.2022 Brown, D., Altermatt, M., Dobreva, T., Chen, S., Wang, A., Thomson, M., & Gradinaru...Kumar, S. R., Miles, T. F., Chen, X., Brown, D., Dobreva, T., Huang, Q., Ding, X., Luo, Y., Einarsson, P... Kumar, S., Miles, T. F., Chen, X., Brown, D., Dobreva, T., Huang, Q., Ding, X., Luo, Y., Einarsson, P...
  19. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ...HDR), the pathway for resolving DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) preferred by researchers. Compared to non-homologous...Base editors chemically modify DNA bases without breaking the DNA backbone, sidestepping the problem of ...converts a C to U without producing a double strand break. UGI = uracil DNA glycosylase. Created with BioRender.com...
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