A CRISPR-Cas platform uses microfluidic droplets, encasing CRISPR components and DNA barcodes, and injects individual droplets into zebrafish embryos. The embryos are raised and then researchers link phenotypes to genotypes by sequencing the barcodes.

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DNA Droplets in Motion Accelerate Gene Discovery

Encasing CRISPR tools in oil droplets offers a fast-track approach to conducting extensive genetic screens in animals.

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A New Approach Improves Signal Detection in Mass Cytometry

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DNA Metabarcoding Reveals Hidden Biodiversity

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DNA Barcoding: Species Detection and High Throughput Assays

Priyom Bose, PhD | | 7 min read

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Sister Cells Reveal Cancer’s Fate

Aparna Nathan, PhD | | 4 min read

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A Menagerie on a Leaf

Rachael Moeller Gorman | | 4 min read

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Scientists ID Dozens of Plants, Animals from Free-Floating DNA

Dan Robitzski | | 8 min read

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Tuna Story Exposes Challenges of Seafood Authentication

Christie Wilcox, PhD | | 4 min read

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Environmental DNA Can Be Pulled from the Air

Amanda Heidt | | 4 min read

New Screening Approach Reveals Novel Regulators of Microcephaly

Catherine Offord | | 2 min read

Gloria Echeverria Investigates an Insidious Form of Breast Cancer

Max Kozlov | | 3 min read

Direct Capture of Guide RNAs Enables Scalable and Combinatorial Single-Cell CRISPR Screens

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Researchers Detect Land Animals Using DNA in Nearby Water Bodies

Nayanah Siva | | 5 min read

Proposed Deep-Sea Mining Zone Harbors Previously Unknown Species

Catherine Offord | | 5 min read

Researchers DNA Barcode the Arctic

Phil Jaekl | | 4 min read

Recreating Fish Migration Written Through Environmental Genomics

Aggie Mika | | 5 min read

Self-Editing Genetic Barcodes

Ruth Williams | | 3 min read

Spiders, Prey Leave DNA

Bob Grant | | 1 min read

Keys to the Minibar

Kerry Grens | | 4 min read

The Benefits of Barcoding

Kerry Grens | | 1 min read

New Bug on the Block

Tracy Vence | | 1 min read

Inauthentic Herbals

Tracy Vence | | 1 min read

Limber LIMS

Nicholette Zeliadt | | 7 min read

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The Future of CRISPR

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