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Conditional Genome Editing in the Mammalian Brain Using CRISPR-Cas9

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This insight article was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81974166, 31872774, 31371119, 91732107, and 81821092), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (7202083, 5182013), the National Basic Research (973) Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2014CB548200 and 2015CB554503), and the Interdisciplinary Medicine Seed Fund of Peking University (BMU2018MX011).

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  1. Neuroscience Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100083, China

    Haojie Sun, Ming Yi & You Wan

  2. Key Laboratory for Neuroscience, Ministry of Education/National Health Commission of China, Peking University, Beijing, 100083, China

    Haojie Sun & You Wan

  3. Department of Pathophysiology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China

    Jie Zheng

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Sun, H., Zheng, J., Yi, M. et al. Conditional Genome Editing in the Mammalian Brain Using CRISPR-Cas9. Neurosci. Bull. 37, 423–426 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-020-00599-z

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