Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing
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Blog Post
Published
Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
...spatial control. Optogenetics uses genetically encoded tools, such as microbial opsins, to control cellular...tools allow scientists to use light to externally control the location, timing, and reversibility of the ...process. Read on to learn about the various light-controlled CRISPR tools available to researchers - some ...published in early 2015 focused on using light to control transcription. Two separate labs, Moritoshi Sato...gene expression while imparting spatiotemporal control, reversibility, and repeatability.
The system developed...expression of the human ASCL1 gene could be spatially controlled in a reversible and repeatable manner.
With their...researchers also demonstrated the ability to spatially control gene expression.
Both of these techniques take ...