An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency
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...to only four days (Paix et al., 2017). The co-CRISPR and co-conversion approaches have the advantage of...using a co-injection marker that is mainly lost in F2 animals, removing the need to segregate away co-conversion...knock-ins at other genomic loci. The first approach – co-CRISPR from Craig Mello’s lab – used inactivation...oligo-mediated knock-in of a dominant mutation, known as co-conversion (Arribere et al., 2014). In both cases...amounts of experimental manipulation and screening.
A co-selection strategy for CRISPR editing in C. elegans...approaches. Being a “lazy” geneticist, I developed a co-selection approach relying on repair of a conditional-lethal...center images depict the power of lethal mutation co-selection. Only animals rescued for the conditional...