Soumya Kannan is a 2021-22 Yang-Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics Graduate Student Fellow in the lab of MIT Professor Feng Zhang and co-first author with Han Altae-Tran of a study reporting a new class of programmable DNA modifying systems known as OMEGAs. Credit: Caitlin Cunningham
New Programmable Gene Editing Proteins Found Outside of CRISPR Systems
Researchers find RNA-guided enzymes are more diverse and widespread than previously believed.
Within the last decade, scientists have adapted CRISPR systems from microbes into gene editing technology, a precise and programmable system for modifying DNA. Now, scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research …
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