Gene Editing

UW Engineers Borrow from Electronics to Build Largest Circuits to Date in Living Eukaryotic Cells

May 31, 2017

An artist’s impression of connected CRISPR-dCas9 NOR gates. (Image Credit: Justin Vrana, University of Washington) Living cells must constantly process information to keep track of the changing world around them and arrive at an [more...]

How to Hack a Cell?

April 9, 2017

The human body is made up of trillions of cells, microscopic computers that carry out complex behaviors according to the signals they receive from each other and their environment. Synthetic biologists engineer living cells to control how [more...]

Using Light to Control Genome Editing

September 5, 2016

MIT researchers have added an extra layer of control to the CRISPR gene-editing approach, by making the system responsive to light (Image credit: MIT News) The genome-editing system known as CRISPR allows scientists to delete or replace [more...]

Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope Of Precision Therapy For Blindness

February 7, 2016

Skin cells from a patient with X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa were transformed into induced pluripotent stem cells and the blindness-causing point mutation in the RPGR gene was corrected using CRISPR/Cas9 (Image credit: Vinit Mahajan) A [more...]