Scientists Create New, More Powerful Technique To Edit Genes
Scientists Create New, More Powerful Technique To Edit Genes Scientists have created a new way to edit DNA that appears to make it even easier to precisely and safely re-write genes. "It's proven difficult to use these molecular scissors to make precise DNA changes in most cell types," says David Liu, a biologist at Harvard, MIT and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass. Sponsor Message One advantage of the new editing technique is that, unlike CRISPR, prime editing doesn't rely on the ability of a cell to divide to help make the desired changes in DNA. "Prime editing is really a step — and potentially a significant step — towards this long-term aspiration of the field in which we are trying to be able to make just about any kind of DNA change that anyone wants at just about any site in the human genome," Liu says.
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