August 2026 updates to the FlyBase Papers with Technical Advances page

The FlyBase Papers with Technical Advances page has updated with papers submitted in August.

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Highly frequent undesired insertional mutagenesis during Drosophila genome editing. (PLoS Genet.)

We show conventional CRISPR/Cas-HDR genome editing frequently (~50% of editing events) causes unintended genome integration of the HDR template vector across loci and editing designs. A new vector, pVID, enables these HDR template integration events to be detected and excluded.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42424384

Long-Stokes-Shift mScarlet3 as a Structural Marker for Two-Photon Imaging. (MicroPubl Biol)

Tested lssmScarlet3 as an imaging tool in Drosophila brain. (Used jGCaMP8m in the paper.)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42540142