PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 31, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
...1]. Like other transposons, piggyBac™ has two components, a transposon and a transposase. The piggyBac...also enables the excision of the transposon in a completely seamless manner, leaving no sequences or mutations...enhanced random integration efficiencies that are accomplished with transfections and are therefore virus-free...enhance gene editing?
Gene editing can now be accomplished in a more cost-effective and efficient manner...challenges still remain, such as making gene edits completely seamless (i.e., so no other genetic alterations...transposase (PBx), which contains mutations making it competent for excision, but defective for integration [4...
How does the piggyBac™ gene editing system compare with other methods of gene editing?
There are primarily...