{"id":110977,"date":"2020-08-06T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T05:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/listeria-protein-provides-a-crispr-kill-switch"},"modified":"2020-08-06T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T05:42:30","slug":"listeria-protein-provides-a-crispr-kill-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/listeria-protein-provides-a-crispr-kill-switch","title":{"rendered":"Listeria protein provides a CRISPR \u2018kill switch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/listeria-protein-provides-a-crispr-kill-switch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could find the coronavirus kill switch and shut it off then let the immune system eat the remainder.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A single protein derived from a common strain of bacteria found in the soil will offer scientists a more precise way to edit RNA.<\/p>\n<p>The protein, called AcrVIA1, can halt the CRISPR-Cas13 editing process, according to new research from Cornell, Rockefeller University and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/369\/6499\/54\">published in the journal Science<\/a> July 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re expanding our scientific toolbox to effectively use a CRISPR without causing side effects,\u201d said co-author <a href=\"https:\/\/foodscience.cals.cornell.edu\/people\/martin-wiedmann\/\">Martin Wiedmann<\/a>, Ph.D. \u201997, the Gellert Family Professor in Food Safety and director of Cornell\u2019s Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program. \u201cThanks to this bacterium, we\u2019re getting a chance to turn off and on our ability to make changes to RNA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could find the coronavirus kill switch and shut it off then let the immune system eat the remainder. A single protein derived from a common strain of bacteria found in the soil will offer scientists a more precise way to edit RNA. The protein, called AcrVIA1, can halt the CRISPR-Cas13 editing process, according to new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}