Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers
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...induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology and CRISPR-Cas9 constructs from Addgene to gene-edit mutations...looking at a bunch of different strategies with CRISPR-Cas9. There are so many different variants and strategies...role of those mutations, they now plan to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology to create cell lines and/or mouse ...specifically, they’ve proposed to use plasmids with modified nickase Cas9 protein in order to target the specific...studying four of those rare diseases will receive plasmids from Addgene worth a total of $5000.
Lowe Syndrome...involving the primary cilia. They’ll put a variety of plasmids to work to explore the effect of various OCRL1...there. This will help us acquire a lot of those plasmids so that we can try many different things in parallel...