Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9
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The off-target problem
It is well known that CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing can result in unwanted changes...Berkeley set out to decrease the off target effects of CRISPR/Cas9 by altering the nuclease activity of the Cas9...Cas9 variant (HypaCas9) to the pool of enhanced CRISPR tools. In their work, Chen et al. 2017 used single...Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., et al. "High-fidelity CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target...