The NgAgo nuclease uses a 5' phosphorylated single-strand DNA guide to create a double strand break in genomic DNA.  It has been proposed as a superior genome editing system over CRISPR-Cas9.  However, there have been scant reports of it working and now there is a heated discussion over whether it works at all.   We have tried it in vitro without success but we generated a codon optimized (to mouse) version of NgAgo with 5' and 3; untranslated sequences plus a polyA site for stability.  THis mRNA will be injected in mouse zygotes using a previously published CRISPR target.  It would be nice to know how people are getting it to work, if , in fact, it is working at all. 

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