Single genome-editing strategy promises to treat multiple disorders

Researchers develop a single genome-editing strategy to treat multiple disorders caused by nonsense mutations, promising ...
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Gene Editing Beyond CRISPR-Cas9: Base Editors

Point mutations change one or very few nucleotides in DNA, but they cause an estimated 30,000 genetic diseases in humans. For example, children born with Progeria age rapidly and die before adulthood, ...
Science Daily

Researchers develop DANGER analysis tool for the safer design of gene editing

A team of researchers has developed a software tool that provides a way for the safer design of genome editing in all organisms with a transcriptome. For about a decade, researchers have used the ...
Nature

Large sets of edit-metric sequence identification tags to facilitate large-scale multiplexing of reads from massively parallel sequencing

Massively parallel DNA sequencing technologies provide exponential increases in the amount of data returned from the sequencing process, relative to traditional (Sanger-based) techniques. Use of ...