New at the DRSC website--protocols for single-cell cloning and stable transfection of Drosophila cells

Two new step-by-step protocols available at the DRSC website:

• Single-cell cloning of Drosophila cells
• Making stably transfected Drosophila cells

And check out these related publications and resources:

Housden BE, Lin S, Perrimon N. Cas9-based genome editing in Drosophila. Methods Enzymol. 2014;546:415-39. PMID: 25398351.

Housden BE, Valvezan AJ, Kelley C, Sopko R, Hu Y, Roesel C,
Lin S, Buckner M, Tao R, Yilmazel B, Mohr SE, Manning BD, Perrimon N. Identification of potential drug targets for tuberous sclerosis complex by synthetic screens combining CRISPR-based knockouts with RNAi. Sci Signal. 2015 Sep 8;8(393):rs9. PMID: 26350902.

Santos MG, Jorge SA, Brillet K, Pereira CA. Improving heterologous protein expression in transfected Drosophila S2 cells as assessed by EGFP expression. Cytotechnology. 2007 May;54(1):15-24. PMID: 19003014; PMCID: PMC2267513.

Have a qPCR machine but no software for high-resolution melt analysis following CRISPR modification? Check out the HRMA online tool.