Zachary C Stevenson, Megan J Moerdyk-Schauwecker ... Patrick C Phillips
TARDIS enables efficient and diverse transgenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans by integrating synthetic DNA libraries into engineered genomic sites, rivaling the scale of transformation previously only possible in microbes.
Wei Huang, Joel Vega-Rodriguez ... Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena
The combination of mosquito transgenesis with paratransgenesis provides maximum parasite-blocking activity and has high potential for fighting malaria.
The METHYL-CpG-BINDING DOMAIN 7 (MBD7) complex promotes the activation (rather than repression) of transgenes that undergo DNA methylation and it does so without significantly altering their methylation status, placing this complex downstream of DNA methylation.
Olivier Serralbo, David Salgado ... Christophe Marcelle
Transfection of quail primordial germ cells considerably expands the possibilities of genome modifications in birds, elevating the quail to the rank of genetic laboratory animal models of reference.
In transgenesis assays involving diploid model organisms, two clearly distinguishable transformation markers embedded in interweaved, but incompatible Lox site pairs allow the systematic creation of homozygous transgenic lines and minimize the number of wasted animals.
Ali S Hamodi, Aude Martinez Sabino ... Michael C Crair
A new viral injection method targets the transverse sinuses to achieve robust whole-brain delivery of single or multiple genes in multiple mammalian species early in development.
An unbiased RNAseq based strategy to identify targetable pathways and a streamlined lentiviral system provide a state of the art advance on direct fibroblast to neuron conversion.
A novel transposon-based enhancer trap screen in mice permits high throughput development of highly restricted driver strains targeting specific neuronal cell types.
Bayly S Wheeler, Erika Anderson ... Barbara J Meyer
A chromosome-wide mechanism balances X-linked gene expression between the sexes in C. elegans, but no similar chromosome-wide mechanism balances gene expression between X chromosomes and autosomes.