Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
... as on-target editing rates vary widely from gRNA to gRNA, it’s unclear where this study would fall in...designed plasmids containing Cas9 and two different gRNAs, and electroporated them with an ssODN repair template...stem cells made from the patient. With the first gRNA, they noted low editing efficiency, with a total...cells. The results were even lower for the second gRNA: 13.1% targeting efficiency with only 13% of edited...cells employing HDR.
Ma et al. moved forward with gRNA 1 to conduct microinjection experiments in S phase...germline editing. Nature News mentions that the MYBPC3 gRNA used in the study had few predicted off-target effects...