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Humans Found to Hold Immunity to CRISPR-Cas9

LC Staff • January 7, 2018

CRISPR-Cas9, the 21st Century’s most promising genetic modification tool has shown to be unusable in humans, thanks to adaptive immunity already present in human beings. In a pre-print paper published […]

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CRISPR as a Recorder of Molecular Activity

Guest Author • June 16, 2016

Researchers from Harvard University have succesfully proved that CRISPR can work as a recorder of molecular events. Synthetic DNA molecules introduced in bacteria over a defined timespan were integrated by the […]

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CRISPR/Cpf1 Edits Mice Embryos Without Off-Target Effects

Guest Author • June 13, 2016

Researchers at the IBS Center for Genome Editing in South Korea have successfully created mutant mice using CRISPR/Cpf1. The alternative to the well-known CRISPR/Cas9 system can edit genomes with exquisite precision and […]

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New CRISPR Nuclease Cuts Both DNA and RNA

Guest Author • April 29, 2016

CRISPR/Cas9 co-discoverer Emmanuelle Charpentier and collaborators from Germany and Sweden have found that Cas nuclease Cpf1 cleaves DNA and RNA. Cpf1 cuts a precursor of crRNA to produce the mature form; it requires only […]

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CRISPRainbow Allows to Tag Seven Genomic Loci Simultaneously

Guest Author • April 21, 2016

Researchers from University of Massachusetts Medical School have developed a new technique to simultaneously track up to seven genomic locations in live cells. The CRISPRainbow system is based on the genomic […]

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HIV Beats CRISPR in First Round, HIV 1 | CRISPR 0

LC Staff • April 9, 2016

Scientists have come to the surprising realization of HIV’s immense ability to evolve resistance to drugs and now even gene editing using CRISPR. Researchers at  McGill University in Montreal have […]