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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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Highly Improved Gene Targeting by Germline-Specific Cas9 Expression in Drosophila

TL;DR: A simple yet extremely efficient platform for systematic gene targeting by the RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9 in Drosophila, which demonstrates rapid generation of mutants in seven neuropeptide and two microRNA genes in which no mutants have been described.
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Highly efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-in in zebrafish by homology-independent DNA repair

TL;DR: CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-in of DNA cassettes into the zebrafish genome at a very high rate by homology-independent double-strand break (DSB) repair pathways is reported and the possibility of easily targeting DNA integration at endogenous loci is shown, thus greatly facilitating the creation of reporter and loss-of-function alleles.
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CRISPR/Cas9 for genome editing: progress, implications and challenges

TL;DR: The molecular mechanism, applications and challenges of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing and clinical therapeutic potential ofCRISPR-associated protein 9 are reviewed and a protospacer adjacent motif locating at downstream of target sequences is reviewed.
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Genome Engineering with Targetable Nucleases

TL;DR: Three classes of targetable cleavage reagents are described: zinc-finger nucleases, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and CRISPR/Cas RNA-guided nuclease (RGNs), which have been successfully used to modify genomic sequences in a wide variety of cells and organisms, including humans.
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A double-edged sword: R loops as threats to genome integrity and powerful regulators of gene expression

TL;DR: Recent findings about R loops, three-stranded nucleic acid structures that comprise nascent RNA hybridized with the DNA template, leaving the nontemplate DNA single-STRanded, are reviewed.
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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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