{"id":155162,"date":"2023-01-11T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/newly-discovered-crispr-immune-system-shuts-down-infected-cells-to-thwart-infection"},"modified":"2023-01-11T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T14:23:11","slug":"newly-discovered-crispr-immune-system-shuts-down-infected-cells-to-thwart-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/newly-discovered-crispr-immune-system-shuts-down-infected-cells-to-thwart-infection","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered CRISPR immune system shuts down infected cells to thwart infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-crispr-immune-system-shuts-down-infected-cells-to-thwart-infection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In this interview, News Medical speaks to Assistant Professor Ryan Jackson about his latest work, published in tandem Nature papers, detailing the discovery of a new CRISPR immune system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Please can you introduce yourself and tell us about your professional background?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I am an Assistant Professor at Utah State University (USU). I use biochemical and structural techniques to understand how the molecules that perform the reactions of life function. I\u2019ve been working in the CRISPR field since 2011. I started as a postdoc in Blake Wiedenheft\u2019s lab at Montana State University, and in 2016 I started my own research lab at USU. I earned both of my degrees (a B.S. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry) from USU, so joining the faculty was like coming home. My research lab specializes in determining the structure and function of newly discovered and obscure CRISPR systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, News Medical speaks to Assistant Professor Ryan Jackson about his latest work, published in tandem Nature papers, detailing the discovery of a new CRISPR immune system. Please can you introduce yourself and tell us about your professional background? I am an Assistant Professor at Utah State University (USU). I use biochemical and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155162","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}