New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications
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...simpler to implement in genome-wide screens over cDNA libraries. However, using CRISPRa to target individual...highlight a key advantage of CRISPRa over traditional cDNA overexpression: isoform-specific gene expression...— at least, more straightforward than generating cDNA for each gene isoform individually.
To highlight...amenable to FACS. Thus, the researchers inserted human CD8, a gene that encodes a surface protein for which...application can be found here.
Why CRISPRa?
Although cDNA overexpression approaches may still be preferable...strategies) and then consider whether traditional cDNA overexpression is suited to your experimental goals...