...This post was contributed by guest bloggers Albert Cheng and Mark Wanner. CRISPR-Cas9 offers a leap forward...page. Many thanks to our guest bloggers! Albert Cheng, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at The JacksonLaboratory...Genomic Medicine, with a research focus on engineeringbetter, more powerful ways to investigate the genome...andtranscriptome. You can follow him on Twitter @albertwcheng.   Mark Wanner (@markgenome on Twitter) is the...their impact on clinicalprogress.   References 1. Cheng, Albert W., et al. "Casilio: a versatile CRISPR-...Plasmids from the Cheng Lab Deposit Plasmids from Your Lab ... genome engineering...

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....  The question for her then was this: Can you engineer CRISPR-Cas9 activators that work well enough on...that they could be used by people with little bioengineering expertise? “This is the next step in high-throughput...Nature in December, Konermann and her colleagues in Feng Zhang’s lab describe just such a system, which they...Synergistic Activation Mediator or SAM. SAM is an engineered protein complex for the transcriptional activation..., unlike the mouse, we can’t rely on genetic engineering to optimize humans for CRISPRi and CRISPRa.” ...activating any human gene, go to http://sam.genome-engineering.org/. Crystal structure of Cas9 in complex with...Genome-scale transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex. Konermann S, Brigham MD,...

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...impossible. With the genome engineering revolution came epigenome-engineering tools - zinc finger nucleases...Wells D, Ahmed AA, Sauka-Spengler T (2017). Genome and epigenome engineering CRISPR toolkit for probing...the DNA after cytosine removal. Recently, Albert Cheng’s lab developed Casilio-ME, which is based on their...Lysine-specific Demethylase 1 (LSD1) Tatjana Sauka-Spengler's lab has deposited pX330a dCas9-LSD1 for targeted...2017) Targeted DNA methylation in vivo using an engineered dCas9-MQ1 fusion protein. Nature Communications...

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