PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field
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...To overcome this obstacle, a positive selection cassette can be incorporated, and used during the differentiation..., but defective for integration [4], the donor cassette is removed leaving behind no accessory transposon...recombination and Footprint-Free™ removal of the selection cassette by excision-only piggyBac™. Image courtesy of ...recombinase technology (Cre/loxP) to remove the donor cassette. While this method can be effective, a loxP site..., it is possible to make the ITR and selection cassette disrupt the target site for the nuclease thereby...preventing re-cutting. Transposase removal of the cassette later restores the target sequence. This allows...