Are Hybrid Guide RNAs Right for Your CRISPR Application?
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 27, 2026, 2:14 p.m.
...to specific genomic targets.
Hybrid guides are oligonucleotides with a mixture of DNA and RNA bases. ...suggest good starting points.
Hybrid guides only reduce certain undesired outcomes. Off-target editing of ...... except when it’s not. Turns out, carefully designed RNA-DNA hybrid strands work just as well—or maybe...reduced off-target effects, this means the hybrid guides are more specific.
Reduced bystander editing by... the target base. It’s not yet clear why hybrid guides reduce bystander editing, and other kinds of base...t been tested yet.
Cost. When synthesizing oligonucleotides, DNA bases are cheaper to include than RNA...universal. In one base editing test, some hybrid guides increased off-target editing instead of decreasing...