Animal models and animal-free innovations for cardiovascular research: current status and routes to be explored. Consensus document of the ESC Working Group on …

J van der Velden, FW Asselbergs… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cardiovascular diseases represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality, necessitating
research to improve diagnostics, and to discover and test novel preventive and curative …

[HTML][HTML] Precise mutagenesis in zebrafish using cytosine base editors

M Rosello, M Serafini, JP Concordet, F Del Bene - Nature Protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Base editing is a powerful CRISPR-based technology for introducing precise substitutions
into the genome. This technology greatly advances mutagenesis possibilities in vivo …

Single-cell transcriptome reveals insights into the development and function of the zebrafish ovary

Y Liu, ME Kossack, ME McFaul, LN Christensen… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Zebrafish are an established research organism that has made many contributions to our
understanding of vertebrate tissue and organ development, yet there are still significant …

[HTML][HTML] Cas9-induced targeted integration of large DNA payloads in primary human T cells via homology-mediated end-joining DNA repair

BR Webber, MJ Johnson, JG Skeate… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
The reliance on viral vectors for the production of genetically engineered immune cells for
adoptive cellular therapies remains a translational bottleneck. Here we report a method …

Efficient protein tagging and cis-regulatory element engineering via precise and directional oligonucleotide-based targeted insertion in plants

J Kumar, SN Char, T Weiss, H Liu, B Liu, B Yang… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Efficient and precise targeted insertion holds great promise but remains challenging in plant
genome editing. An efficient nonhomologous end-joining-mediated targeted insertion …

Disease modeling by efficient genome editing using a near PAM-less base editor in vivo

M Rosello, M Serafini, L Mignani, D Finazzi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Base Editors are emerging as an innovative technology to introduce point mutations in
complex genomes. So far, the requirement of an NGG Protospacer Adjacent Motif (PAM) at a …

Efficient CRISPR-Cas9-mediated knock-in of composite tags in zebrafish using long ssDNA as a donor

DC Ranawakage, K Okada, K Sugio… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite the unprecedented gene editing capability of CRISPR-Cas9-mediated targeted
knock-in, the efficiency and precision of this technology still require further optimization …

Rapid and precise genome engineering in a naturally short-lived vertebrate

CN Bedbrook, RD Nath, R Nagvekar, K Deisseroth… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
The African turquoise killifish is a powerful vertebrate system to study complex phenotypes
at scale, including aging and age-related disease. Here, we develop a rapid and precise …

Endogenous protein tagging in medaka using a simplified CRISPR/Cas9 knock-in approach

A Seleit, A Aulehla, A Paix - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The CRISPR/Cas9 system has been used to generate fluorescently labelled fusion proteins
by homology-directed repair in a variety of species. Despite its revolutionary success, there …

Shifting the focus of zebrafish toward a model of the tumor microenvironment

JM Weiss, D Lumaquin-Yin, E Montal, S Suresh… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cancer cells exist in a complex ecosystem with numerous other cell types in the tumor
microenvironment (TME). The composition of this tumor/TME ecosystem will vary at each …