On the Horizon

After all the hard work of editing your cell line, you want to have confidence in your new research model. So, how do you verify your cell line is what you expect it to be? Could a heterogeneous cell population be obscuring your editing effects? Is observed phenotype being caused by the targeted gene edit, or unintended off-target effects? Here we discus ways to add supporting data to validate your gene-engineering projects.

CRISPR-edited cell lines are a useful tool to validate your antibodies before you start an experiment. They ensure you are using high quality reagents, so you can be confident in your results. Here we explain how you can use our edited cell lines for validation, the challenges to be aware of and how we can help you overcome them.

CRISPR technology now allows genes and molecular pathways to be examined with greater definition. We look at how knockout cell lines, either together with gene rescue and replication of disease mutations or as an independent cell model, can be used to validate your research and extend your findings

Revealing the role of E3 ubiquitin ligases in DNA damage repair. One of the diverse new uses for the HAP1 cell line, one that has begun to draw significant attention, is in the field of DNA damage repair. A recent paper from Minoru Takata's group highlights this important application of this relatively new tool.

Cancer fusion genes are hybrid genes that produce abnormal proteins believed to catalyze further cancer growth and increase invasiveness. Here we highlight novel research using CRISPR gene editing to specifically target cancer fusion genes, which could offer many potential therapeutic applications.

A look at how a new method dubbed SHERLOCK adapts CRISPR-based technology to a diagnostic platform to allow mutation detections in DNA and RNA.

This blog explores how a selection of HAP1 knockout cell lines were used to confirm the involvement of DDR pathways in compounds mode of action, demonstrating opportunities for the exploitation of synthetic lethal interactions.

Review of a paper published in Nature .com, detailing analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 sensitivity (Drop-out) screening, which resulted in the development of a streamlined screening pipeline to evaluate fundamental aspects of functional genomic screening.