New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications
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...the Day Lab, who developed neuron-optimized lentiviral vectors for in vitro and in vivo CRISPRa (Savell ...physiology.
The Day Lab’s neuron-optimized lentiviral vectors can be found here.
High-throughput screening...Neuron-optimized viral vectors
Alternatively, Cas9 activators can be delivered to the CNS by lentivirus, which has.... This dual lentivirus system pairs ubiquitous expression of sgRNA(s) and mCherry (vector 1) with neuron-specific...their optimized vectors to highlight a key advantage of CRISPRa over traditional cDNA overexpression: ...including transgenic mice, neuron-optimized viral vectors, and high-throughput screening approaches. Here...largely precludes delivery by adeno-associated vectors (AAV). This issue was recently circumvented by ...