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Genome engineering of Drosophila with the CRISPR RNA-guided Cas9 nuclease

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A bacterial CRISPR RNA/Cas9 system is adapted to precisely engineer the Drosophila genome and it is reported that Cas9-mediated genomic modifications are efficiently transmitted through the germline.
Abstract
We have adapted a bacterial CRISPR RNA/Cas9 system to precisely engineer the Drosophila genome and report that Cas9-mediated genomic modifications are efficiently transmitted through the germline. This RNA-guided Cas9 system can be rapidly programmed to generate targeted alleles for probing gene function in Drosophila.

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Two modes of transvection at the eyes absent gene of Drosophila demonstrate plasticity in transcriptional regulatory interactions in cis and in trans.

TL;DR: It is found that trans-activation of a promoter by the eya eye-specific enhancers is broadly supported in many allelic backgrounds, and that the availability of an enhancer to act in trans can be predicted based on the molecular lesion of an eya allele.
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Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 in Trypanosoma cruzi

TL;DR: This chapter describes the methodology to achieve genome editing by CRISPR/Cas9 in T. cruzi and generates homogeneous populations of genetically modified parasites in 4-5 weeks without the need of cell sorting, selection of clonal populations, or insertion of more than one resistance marker to modify both alleles of the gene.
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Panoramix SUMOylation on chromatin connects the piRNA pathway to the cellular heterochromatin machinery

TL;DR: The mechanism by which the PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway connects to the heterochromatin machinery in Drosophila is explained and it is found that Panoramix, a corepressor required for piRNA-guided heterochromeatin formation, is SUMOylated on chromatin in a Piwi-dependent manner.
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TALEN-mediated Drosophila genome editing: protocols and applications.

TL;DR: A detailed protocol for TALEN-mediated genomic modification in Drosophila is described, with the aim of providing a practical bench guide for the Dosophila research community.
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The Role of Gene Editing in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

TL;DR: The clinical manifestations of three distinct NDs are introduced and the applications of the gene-editing technology on these debilitating diseases are introduced.
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A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.

TL;DR: This study reveals a family of endonucleases that use dual-RNAs for site-specific DNA cleavage and highlights the potential to exploit the system for RNA-programmable genome editing.
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Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems

TL;DR: The type II prokaryotic CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas adaptive immune system has been shown to facilitate RNA-guided site-specific DNA cleavage as discussed by the authors.

Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems

TL;DR: Two different type II CRISPR/Cas systems are engineered and it is demonstrated that Cas9 nucleases can be directed by short RNAs to induce precise cleavage at endogenous genomic loci in human and mouse cells, demonstrating easy programmability and wide applicability of the RNA-guided nuclease technology.
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RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas9

TL;DR: The type II bacterial CRISPR system is engineer to function with custom guide RNA (gRNA) in human cells to establish an RNA-guided editing tool for facile, robust, and multiplexable human genome engineering.
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CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes

TL;DR: It is found that, after viral challenge, bacteria integrated new spacers derived from phage genomic sequences, and CRISPR provided resistance against phages, and resistance specificity is determined by spacer-phage sequence similarity.
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