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14/07/22 12:01 PM IST

CRISPR gene editing

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  • 10 years back in 2012, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published their finding that CRISPR-Cas9 could be programmed with RNA to edit genomic DNA, now considered one of the most significant discoveries in the history of biology.
CRISPR Gene Editing 
  • Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Associated protein 9
  • CRISPR gene editingis a genetic engineering technique by which the genomes of living organisms may be modified.
  • It is based on a simplified version of the bacterial CRISPR-Cas9 antiviral defence system. By delivering the Cas9 enzyme with a synthetic guide RNA (gRNA) into a cell, the cell’s genome can be cut at the desired location.
  • A genome is the complete set of genetic information in an organism. The genome is stored in long molecules of DNA called chromosomes.
Source- Indian Express 

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