In an article published yesterday researchers report that they have tested thousands of random changes in the CRISPR protein used in gene editing to see if they could find one that produces fewer errors than the naturally occurring one currently used, and they did. They found an enzyme that made 93 times fewer mistakes, and the old one was already pretty good!
High-fidelity SaCas9 identified by directional screening in human cells <https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000747> John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv32KX53F3t_4NA-E9J-ab9UvDukAAuFZDjz-KudGYaMrA%40mail.gmail.com.