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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.
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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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CRISPR/Cas9 mediated genome engineering in Drosophila.

TL;DR: A simple and efficient technique to generate and detect novel mutations in desired target genes in Drosophila melanogaster by injections of mRNA encoding the Cas9 endonuclease and in vitro transcribed synthetic guide RNA is described.
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Progress and Prospects of CRISPR/Cas Systems in Insects and Other Arthropods

TL;DR: This paper seeks to provide a comprehensive and impartial overview of the progress of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in different arthropods, reviewing not only fundamental studies related to gene function exploration and experimental optimization but also applied studies in areas such as insect modification and pest control.
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Targeted Heritable Mutation and Gene Conversion by Cas9-CRISPR in Caenorhabditis elegans

TL;DR: Targeted heritable genome modification in Caenorhabditis elegans is achieved by injecting mRNA of the nuclease Cas9 and Cas9 guide RNAs, which rapidly creates precise genomic changes, including knockouts and transgene-instructed gene conversion.
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CRISPR-based technologies: prokaryotic defense weapons repurposed

TL;DR: Rapid progress made in redirecting the nuclease activities of these microbial immune systems to bind and cleave DNA or RNA targets of choice, by reprogramming the small guide RNAs of the various CRISPR-Cas complexes are summarized.
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A versatile two-step CRISPR- and RMCE-based strategy for efficient genome engineering in Drosophila.

TL;DR: An efficient two-step strategy to flexibly engineer the fly genome by combining CRISPR with recombinase-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE) enabling flexible gene modification is developed and suggests that any fly laboratory can engineer their favorite gene for a broad range of applications within approximately 3 months.
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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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