Mother Nature Deals With the Brakes

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In all ourcelles that divide every piece of dione is flanked by an identical copy, which, unfortunately, is called a sister. Mother nature evolved this beautiful pathway where, if one chromosome is broken, that broken end literally its very sweet. It's actually kind of warm and fuzzy. The other way to repair a break is to find an unbroken, identical diane molecule and control the copy past the missing genetic information from an unbroken,. intact, normal temple. So it was discovered that you can basically stick inside es or a human fell lot of dione thatyou have made in the lamb are identical in sequence. This would be a good time to evoke the maniacal sc

Not too long ago nobody carried a mobile phone; now almost everybody does. That’s the kind of rate of rapid progress we’re seeing with our ability to directly edit genomes. With the use of CRISPR-Cas9 and other techniques, gene editing is becoming commonplace. How does that work — and perhaps more importantly, how are we going to put it to use? Fyodor Urnov has worked in this area from its beginning, having coined the term “gene editing.” We talk about how this new technology can be used to cure or prevent disease, as well as the pros and cons of designer babies.

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Fyodor Urnov received his Ph.D. in Biology from Brown University. He is currently professor of Genetic, Genomics, and Development in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, as well as Director for Technology and Translation at the Innovative Genomics Institute. His research focuses on using CRISPR gene-editing techniques to develop treatments for sickle cell disease, radiation injury, and other conditions, as well as guiding IGI researchers as they bring these therapies from the lab to the clinic.

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