《Nature | 体内AAV-Perturb-seq转录连锁分析》

  • 来源专题:战略生物资源
  • 编译者: 李康音
  • 发布时间:2023-09-23
  • 2023年9月20日,苏黎世联邦理工学院的研究人员在Nature发表题为Transcriptional linkage analysis with in vivo AAV-Perturb-seq的文章。研究者借助CRISPR技术,成功同时在动物体内不同细胞间敲除了不同的基因,每一个细胞被改变的基因不会超过一个,因此能够平行观察不同基因变化导致的细胞走向。

    研究人员强调这一方法可以用于研究其他的疾病,比如一些先天性疾病都与多基因作用有关,而单次实验编辑的基因可以从数十个到上百个不等,因此可以加速让我们认识更多疾病背后的深层机制。




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    原文链接: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bB5EL8LSEMMX4BVKwiXamw

  • 原文来源:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06570-y
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