Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans
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...genome engineering methods for C. elegans were released, signaling a new era in C. elegans research. Homology...of custom genomic modifications, is very robust in C. elegans, and the methods for HDR-mediated modification...the University of North Carolina has made CRISPR in C. elegans even easier - now, one can generate a fluorescent...-based gene tagging approach
Multiple features of C. elegans have made CRISPR/Cas9 so successful in this...previously used a transgene selection strategy for their C. elegans/CRISPR experiments, but this strategy required... make it possible fluorescently label proteins in C. elegans, they inserted the SEC into a synthetic intron...system is both simple to use and highly efficient for C. elegans genome modification.
Figure 2: Schematic...