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Featured
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Research Highlight |
Spotlight on Cas12
A search for more type V Cas12 family members turns up unexpected functionality.
- Nicole Rusk
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Evolution of an A-base editor
Protein evolution yields a programmable base editor that can revert the most common pathogenic point mutations in the genome.
- Tal Nawy
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Tools in Brief |
Hyper-accurate Cas9
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How phages defeat CRISPR
As more phage-derived Cas9 inhibitors are discovered, their detailed characterization is a prerequisite to using them as research tools.
- Nicole Rusk
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Methods in Brief |
Limits of gene drives
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What comes first—genomic structure or function?
CRISPR-mediated chromatin looping provides insight into the effect of genomic structure on gene expression.
- Nicole Rusk
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Tools in Brief |
Self-limiting Cas9
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CRISPR kinetics
In vitro Cas9-binding assays show the effects of mutations in the target sequence on binding kinetics.
- Nicole Rusk
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Tools in Brief |
Single-base editing
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Another player for RNA-guided RNA cleavage
Cas13b relies on activator and repressor proteins to regulate RNA cleavage.
- Nicole Rusk
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Tools in Brief |
CRISPR screens tackle the noncoding genome
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REXER helps design bacterial genomes
A CRISPR–Cas9-based approach identifies synonymous codons that can be reassigned to encode new chemical building blocks.
- Nicole Rusk
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Methods in Brief |
Apicomplexans submit to CRISPR screening
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Tools in Brief |
Showdown between Cas9 and Cpf1
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Cas9, the cellular genealogist
Genome editing marks cells in developing fish for lineaging studies.
- Tal Nawy
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Retraining an editor as a mapmaker
A sequence-specific labeling system based on CRISPR/Cas9 enables simultaneous imaging of multiple chromosomal sites in live cells.
- Michael Eisenstein
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Cas9 and the importance of asymmetry
Short single-stranded DNA donors that asymmetrically span the Cas9 cut site show high efficiency in homology-directed editing.
- Nicole Rusk
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Tools in Brief |
Cas9 on target
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Driving out malaria
Laboratory tests show that gene drives could obliterate wild mosquito populations carrying the malaria parasite, or make them resistant to its transmission.
- Tal Nawy
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Tools in Brief |
Efficient transduction of proteins into eukaryotic cells
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News & Views |
Co-opting CRISPR to deliver functional RNAs
Portions of the CRISPR-Cas9 guide RNA can be reworked to carry functional RNA cargos to genomic loci.
- Pei-Chun Lin
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