Hot Plasmids - October 2020
Type
Blog Post
Published
Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...Tsang
Fluorescent proteins (FPs) traditionally introduced in Caenorhabditis elegans on extrachromosomal...gene into the target gene’s native locus, but introducing large genetic changes in C. elegans with CRISPR... donors (ssODN). So how can you use CRISPR to introduce large FP genes into C. elegans? By using a split...protein. They used CRISPR with a ssODN template to introduce the small wrmScarlet11 which is less than 60 nt...exclusively in huge bacteriophage genomes. It’s active in vitro and in human and plant cells. Its small size offers...