Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System
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Blog Post
Published
Dec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
...variants or mutations have been reported in people, we can use this kit to knock in those mutations. Once that's...efficiently generate human stem cells edited to carry mutant versions of 15 different disease-associated genes...homology-directed repair by flooding the cell with a mutant template and fooling the cell into using that template... you can either knock out a gene or knock in a mutation.
Addgene: How do you use this kit to target a ... done in stem cells, we can differentiate those mutant and wild type stem cells into any cell type relevant...adipocytes or neurons, for instance – to see how those mutations influence the disease process. In the Cell Stem...The TALEN kit is quite useful in generating the mutant cell lines that one needs to do disease modeling...