Mapping the 4D nucleome with CRISPR/Cas9
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 11, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
...many applications, the most well-known being transcriptional activation/repression. dCas9 has also previously...could then be used to examine both inter- and intrachromosomal dynamics, and how they change in response ...turned their attention to mapping pairs of intrachromosomal loci. The technique successfully resolved ... this work represents the first mapping of intrachromosomal loci, a major benchmark in characterizing ...for example, the visualization of chromosomal translocations or chromosomal shattering (chromothripsis)....