Cutting Once Is Harder Than It Sounds: Your Guide to Minimizing Off-Target Effects
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 31, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
... DNA. But “remarkably precise” does not mean “perfectly specific.” In reality, CRISPR nucleases occasionally...activity will cleave it too.
This leads to the powerful concept of using target-matched nucleases.
The...genomic matches, just in case.
You may not get a perfect prediction, but you get a great preliminary risk...In the first step, a rough on-target screen is performed, where we test WT SpCas9 and three selected IFNs...: Activity of 9 IFNs with a sgRNA targeting a perfectly matching genomic target (blue line) and a single...