A revolution is under way in functional genomics which is spearheaded by the CRISPR-Cas9 system and its application to pooled genetic screening. Remarkable new tools, made possible by dCas9, are coming to fruition that will allow for a new kind of interrogation of gene function, allowing us to ask more sophisticated questions about the biology of drug targets.
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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.
It’s hard to keep up with the rapidly expanding world of CRISPR, and it’s starting to feel like CRISPR screens are being published every week, taking the technique from the cutting edge to the mainstream. If you’d like to understand a bit more about CRISPR screens, here’s a number of fantastic publications that have really moved this technology forward.