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Seeing the light: integrating genome engineering with double-strand break repair

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The two-color traffic light reporter reads out what pathway is used to repair a DNA break and will increase insights into genome engineering.

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Figure 1: A reporter for DNA repair pathway choice.

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  1. Matthew Porteus is in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,

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Porteus, M. Seeing the light: integrating genome engineering with double-strand break repair. Nat Methods 8, 628–630 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1656

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