Through genome analysis, the researchers found that 58 percent ofrare genetic variantsare located in only 2 percent ofhuman genes. They developed their tool, the Gene Damage Index, from this observation, reasoning that genes that are frequently mutated in thegeneral populationare unlikely to cause ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at Stanford University developed a new gene-editing technology to manipulate the genome in three-dimensional space, and found that genes behaved differently in different zones. The study, published on Thursday in the journal Cell, showed that the new t...
To fill that gap, the team of scientists developed ModPoKI. The technology combines multiple genes into long stretches of DNA for use in a CRISPR gene editing platform. The group used this tool to create approximately 10,000 possible combinations of these DNA stretches by mixing hundreds of gen...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Researchers in the United States have identified a key region within a protein that governs how accurately the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 homes in on a target deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence. CRISPR is short for Clustered Regularly Interspace...
Researchers develop new nanomedicine tool for gene deliveryTufts UniversityJournal of Gene Medicine
The scientists involved in the new study also used the CRISPR/Cas-9 tool. But they developed a new process to improve their research for use with many kinds of insects. In the past, researchers performing gene editing on insects injected genetically edited materials directly into developing ...
A team of researchers at the University of Georgia has found a way to use the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool on reptiles. In their paper uploaded to the bioRxiv preprint server, the group describes the technique they developed and how well it worked on te
CRISPR gene editing of the pig genome. Credit: Editors-in-Chief Franco J. DeMayo and Thomas Spencer, Biology of Reproduction (Phys.org)—One benefit of the closeness between pigs and humans is the potential to be organ donors. There are however, just a few nagging uncertainties that still ...
When Dr. O’Toole, an expert in memory materials, cofounded Exergyn in 2012, his intention was to use the SMAS to create a system that would turn low grade waste heat into electricity. But the challenges presented by HFCS persuaded him that air conditioning would be a quicker way to ...
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