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Genome editing 101: let's go digital

An approach is described that simplifies the isolation of rare human pluripotent stem cells engineered to carry precise disease-relevant mutations.

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Figure 1: Isolation of rare engineered mutant human pluripotent stem cell clones by iterative subcloning and ddPCR screening.

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Forster, R., Hockemeyer, D. Genome editing 101: let's go digital. Nat Methods 11, 248–249 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2859

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