An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency
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...explore alternate approaches. Being a “lazy” geneticist, I developed a co-selection approach relying on repair...with unprecedented ease. These new C. elegans approaches rapidly enrich for editing events without the...phenotypes (unc-119) (Dickinson et al., 2013). These approaches allowed effective recovery of knock-ins, but ...Including Cre-mediated marker excision, it takes approximately 3-4 weeks to obtain a homozygous, outcrossed...several manuscripts published in Genetics detailed approaches in which selection for an editing event that ...and knock-ins at other genomic loci. The first approach – co-CRISPR from Craig Mello’s lab – used inactivation...animals with particular visible phenotypes. These approaches may become even more powerful following a report...