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... arrangements may affect nuclear processes. The latest of these visualization tools is CRISPR-Sirius, ...specific loci based on the guide RNA sequence. A year later, they developed CRISPRainbow (Ma et al., 2016), ...chromosome-specific loci in the genome and the guides are relatively unstable.   Figure 1: CRISPRainbow labeling... proteins. (B) CRISPR-Sirius used to visualize relative locations of the subtelomeric region of the pericentromeric...

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