Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans
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...selection-based gene tagging approach
Multiple features of C. elegans have made CRISPR/Cas9 so successful...is inserted at the 5’ end of a gene, the SEC separates the targeted gene from its promoter, creating a ...the targeted gene.
After initial testing, Dickinson et al. tested this system across 7 genes in parallel...animals per gene, they obtained the desired insertions on the first attempt for 6/7 genes. The data are...efficient selection-based CRISPR/Cas9 method to generate knock-ins on any genetic background. Their new method...publication at Addgene.
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