Chris Fell
cfell.bsky.social
Chris Fell
@cfell.bsky.social
Postdoc AbuGoot lab
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So excited to share our new paper out today in @nature.com. We repurposed R2 retrotransposons to create STITCHR, a tool that can make virtually any kind of edit in mammalian genomes including the scarless multi-kilobase scale insertions 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reprogramming site-specific retrotransposon activity to new DNA sites - Nature
A study of retrotransposon activity repurposes a retroelement called R2Tocc to create a programmable system called STITCHR that enables diverse genome edits including efficient, scarless large pa...
www.nature.com
Reposted by Chris Fell
If you like transposons...
If you you love genome editing...
Or if you just like random bird animations,

we have the paper for you!

We (@kedmonds.bsky.social et al) are happy to share our work turning a songbird retrotransposon into a genome editing tool. 🐣 (1/n)
July 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Reposted by Chris Fell
STITCHR, a tool that can make virtually any kind of edit in mammalian genomes including the scarless multi-kilobase scale insertions. Plasmids here www.addgene.org/browse/artic...
April 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So excited to share our new paper out today in @nature.com. We repurposed R2 retrotransposons to create STITCHR, a tool that can make virtually any kind of edit in mammalian genomes including the scarless multi-kilobase scale insertions 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reprogramming site-specific retrotransposon activity to new DNA sites - Nature
A study of retrotransposon activity repurposes a retroelement called R2Tocc to create a programmable system called STITCHR that enables diverse genome edits including efficient, scarless large pa...
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🚨 Interested in precise, multi-kilobase scale insertions into the genome?

Check out our detailed protocol describing PASTE, out in Nature Protocols @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precise kilobase-scale genomic insertions in mammalian cells using PASTE - Nature Protocols
Programmable addition via site-specific targeting elements (PASTE) combines the specificity, efficiency and cargo size benefits of site-specific integrases with the programmability of prime editing fo...
www.nature.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:17 PM