Turning on a Selected Gene in the Rat Brain (IMAGE)

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Turning on a Selected Gene in the Rat Brain

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Neurons in the rat nucleus accumbens -- a key brain reward structure -- were targeted for CRISPR-based gene activation. Fluorescent reporter molecules mark the protein product of a gene targeted for activation (green), neurons expressing a CRISPR guide RNA (red), and DNA (blue).

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Katherine Savell and Nancy Carullo, UAB

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