Time Matters: Gene Editing at the Mouse 2-Cell Embryo Stage Boosts Knockin Efficiency

Abstract

Although endonuclease-mediated genome editing techniques offer significant improvement over traditional methods, they are still ineffective for introduction of large DNA sequences. Recently in Nature Biotechnology, Gu et al. (2018) developed a CRISPR-Cas strategy termed 2C-HR-CRISPR that generates fluorescent reporter tagging of genes with up to 95% knockin efficiency in mouse embryos.