New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications
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Blog Post
...describe the development of CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) tools for neuroscience, including transgenic mice...What is CRISPR-based activation?
To summarize, CRISPRa uses a nuclease-dead variant of Cas9 (dCas9) and...by specific sgRNAs. Its RNA-guided nature makes CRISPRa much simpler to implement in genome-wide screens...screens over cDNA libraries. However, using CRISPRa to target individual genes can be relatively laborious...ones.
Simplified in vivo delivery using SPH mice
CRISPRa has largely been limited to in vitro settings due...neuron-optimized lentiviral vectors for in vitro and in vivo CRISPRa (Savell et al., 2019). This dual lentivirus system...promoter, which was superior in its ability to induce CRISPRa in primary rat neurons over other promoters, including...