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Encoding Permanent Records Of Transcription In The Genome, Francesco Ettore Emiliani
Encoding Permanent Records Of Transcription In The Genome, Francesco Ettore Emiliani
Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations
Current approaches to study cellular transcriptional states offer only a single frame in the life of a cell, often in a destructive fashion. This means that our state snapshot neither has the context of the past, nor the ability to be traced into the future. To overcome this, we present a technology that can permanently encode gene expression for later recovery. Our technology uses transcriptional responses to guide CRISPR/AsCas12a to ‘write’ information into the cell’s own genome, creating a permanent and heritable record of this response. By placing a set of AsCas12a guides under the control of a Wnt-responsive TCF/LEF …