Organoid technologies meet genome engineering

EMBO Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 367-376

  Nie, Jing ^a   Hashino, Eri ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CRISPR; disease modeling; homology directed repair; organoids; stem cells

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EDITING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SYSTEMS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROCEDURES; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; GENE EDITING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; ORGANOIDS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 85013270419     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201643732     Document Type: Review

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