Whole-organism lineage tracing by combinatorial and cumulative genome editing

A McKenna, GM Findlay, JA Gagnon, MS Horwitz… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The developmental path by which a fertilized egg gives rise to the cells of a
multicellular organism is termed the cell lineage. In 1983, John Sulston and colleagues …

Large-scale reconstruction of cell lineages using single-cell readout of transcriptomes and CRISPR–Cas9 barcodes by scGESTALT

B Raj, JA Gagnon, AF Schier - Nature protocols, 2018 - nature.com
Lineage relationships among the large number of heterogeneous cell types generated
during development are difficult to reconstruct in a high-throughput manner. We recently …

Simultaneous single-cell profiling of lineages and cell types in the vertebrate brain

B Raj, DE Wagner, A McKenna, S Pandey… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The lineage relationships among the hundreds of cell types generated during development
are difficult to reconstruct. A recent method, GESTALT, used CRISPR–Cas9 barcode editing …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell lineage tracing by integrating CRISPR-Cas9 mutations with transcriptomic data

H Zafar, C Lin, Z Bar-Joseph - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Recent studies combine two novel technologies, single-cell RNA-sequencing and CRISPR-
Cas9 barcode editing for elucidating developmental lineages at the whole organism level …

CRISPR-guided DNA polymerases enable diversification of all nucleotides in a tunable window

SO Halperin, CJ Tou, EB Wong, C Modavi, DV Schaffer… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The capacity to diversify genetic codes advances our ability to understand and engineer
biological systems,. A method for continuously diversifying user-defined regions of a …

Simultaneous lineage tracing and cell-type identification using CRISPR–Cas9-induced genetic scars

B Spanjaard, B Hu, N Mitic, P Olivares-Chauvet… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A key goal of developmental biology is to understand how a single cell is transformed into a
full-grown organism comprising many different cell types. Single-cell RNA-sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Functional genetic variants revealed by massively parallel precise genome editing

E Sharon, SAA Chen, NM Khosla, JD Smith… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
A major challenge in genetics is to identify genetic variants driving natural phenotypic
variation. However, current methods of genetic mapping have limited resolution. To address …

CRISPR-mediated live imaging of genome editing and transcription

H Wang, M Nakamura, TR Abbott, D Zhao, K Luo, C Yu… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We report a robust, versatile approach called CRISPR live-cell fluorescent in situ
hybridization (LiveFISH) using fluorescent oligonucleotides for genome tracking in a broad …

Karyotype engineering by chromosome fusion leads to reproductive isolation in yeast

J Luo, X Sun, BP Cormack, JD Boeke - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Extant species have wildly different numbers of chromosomes, even among taxa with
relatively similar genome sizes (for example, insects),. This is likely to reflect accidents of …

[HTML][HTML] Wildtype heterogeneity contributes to clonal variability in genome edited cells

L Westermann, Y Li, B Göcmen, M Niedermoser… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Genome editing tools such as CRISPR/Cas9 enable the rapid and precise manipulation of
genomes. CRISPR-based genome editing has greatly simplified the study of gene function …