Thursday, April 21, 2016

New genome editing technique can target single letters of DNA sequence

Building off the powerful gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, researchers have created a new tool that can target and change a single letter in a sequence of DNA.

The new technique, known as base editing, can be programmed to turn the DNA base cytosine (known in the DNA alphabet as C) into...



via L.A. Times - Science http://ift.tt/1SvtsbW

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