{"id":124631,"date":"2021-07-06T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/iss-researchers-repaired-dna-in-space-using-crispr-cas9-genome-editing"},"modified":"2021-07-06T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:22:38","slug":"iss-researchers-repaired-dna-in-space-using-crispr-cas9-genome-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/iss-researchers-repaired-dna-in-space-using-crispr-cas9-genome-editing","title":{"rendered":"ISS researchers repaired DNA in space using CRISPR\/Cas9 genome editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iss-researchers-repaired-dna-in-space-using-crispr-cas9-genome-editing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers aboard the ISS have announced the first successful use in space for a new technique for studying DNA repair in yeast. Astronauts aboard the space station have demonstrated a successful CRISPR\/Cas9 genome editing method. An organism can suffer damaged DNA occurring during normal biological processes or as the result of environmental causes.<\/p>\n<p>In both humans and animals, damaged DNA can lead to cancer. However, there are multiple natural strategies inside cells that allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2021-06\/p-adc062321.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">damaged DNA<\/a> to be repaired. NASA is working hard on studying DNA repair in space because astronauts traveling outside of the atmosphere have an increased risk of DNA damage due to ionizing radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, technological and safety obstacles have limited research into the issue. Now astronauts aboard the ISS have developed a new method for studying DNA repair in yeast cells that can be conducted completely in space. The process uses CRISPR\/Cas9 genome editing technology to create precise damage in DNA strands to allow DNA repair mechanisms to be observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers aboard the ISS have announced the first successful use in space for a new technique for studying DNA repair in yeast. Astronauts aboard the space station have demonstrated a successful CRISPR\/Cas9 genome editing method. An organism can suffer damaged DNA occurring during normal biological processes or as the result of environmental causes. In both [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124631","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}