New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications
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...relatively laborious because multiple plasmids/viruses are needed to deliver all the protein and RNA components...Cas9 activators can be delivered to the CNS by lentivirus, which has a larger packaging capacity than AAV...vivo CRISPRa (Savell et al., 2019). This dual lentivirus system pairs ubiquitous expression of sgRNA(s... such as EF-1α and CAG.
Figure 2: Dual lentivirus system with ubiquitous expression of sgRNA (top...