CASTing Off for New Shores in Human Genome Editing
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 10, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...targeting power of CRISPR combined with the large sequence capacity of transposons open whole new worlds ...cofactors. The transposon proteins integrate a payload sequence into genomic DNA downstream from the Cas target... double-stranded breaks and can deliver large sequences and even entire genes.
Figure 1: Mechanism... transposon proteins (Tns) to integrate large sequences into genomic DNA downstream of gRNA-specified ...site-specific recombinase to achieve insertion of long sequences. In their experiments, PASSIGE had higher efficiency...