Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens
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... the CRISPR system was a large one. The question for her then was this: Can you engineer CRISPR-Cas9 ...Two-way CRISPR screening
In October, Jonathan Weissman’s lab introduced additional pooled CRISPR libraries...CRISPR technology has changed how scientists edit and control genes, but according to the Broad Institute's...Institute's Silvana Konermann, the first generation of CRISPR-Cas9 plasmids were not designed with gene activation...lab describe just such a system, which they call CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation Mediator or SAM. SAM...earlier by the Zhang lab for GeCKO, a lentiviral CRISPR library enabling genome-scale, knockout screening...review the steps for how to use pooled lentiviral CRISPR libraries and keep the following in mind:
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