{"id":160435,"date":"2023-03-16T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-killer-crispr-system-is-unlike-any-scientists-have-seen"},"modified":"2023-03-16T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:24:19","slug":"new-killer-crispr-system-is-unlike-any-scientists-have-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-killer-crispr-system-is-unlike-any-scientists-have-seen","title":{"rendered":"New killer CRISPR system is unlike any scientists have seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4b3gaZju33E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s poor for that particular cell, but it protects the whole colony of bacteria so that virus doesn\u2019t spread through it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/utah\/2023\/1\/8\/23544916\/usu-biochemists-discovery-lands-them-academic-journal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Jackson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CRISPR vs. cancer: <\/strong>The newly published papers detail the structure and function of Cas12a2, but more research is needed to determine how we might be able to harness this system for our benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The good news, so far, is that <em>looks <\/em>programmable, meaning we might be able to use it to kill certain cells, such as those with cancerous mutations, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s poor for that particular cell, but it protects the whole colony of bacteria so that virus doesn\u2019t spread through it,\u201d said Jackson. CRISPR vs. cancer: The newly published papers detail the structure and function of Cas12a2, but more research is needed to determine how we might be able to harness this system for our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160435","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}