{"id":177494,"date":"2023-12-05T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T03:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/new-enzyme-allows-crispr-technologies-to-accurately-target-almost-all-human-genes"},"modified":"2023-12-05T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T03:22:38","slug":"new-enzyme-allows-crispr-technologies-to-accurately-target-almost-all-human-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/new-enzyme-allows-crispr-technologies-to-accurately-target-almost-all-human-genes","title":{"rendered":"New enzyme allows CRISPR technologies to accurately target almost all human genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-enzyme-allows-crispr-technologies-to-accurately-target-almost-all-human-genes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers at Duke University have developed a method to broaden the reach of CRISPR technologies. While the original CRISPR system could only target 12.5% of the human genome, the new method expands access to nearly every gene to potentially target and treat a broader range of diseases through genome engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The research involved collaborators at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, University of Zurich and McMaster University.<\/p>\n<p>This work was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-41829-y\">published<\/a> on October 4 in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers at Duke University have developed a method to broaden the reach of CRISPR technologies. While the original CRISPR system could only target 12.5% of the human genome, the new method expands access to nearly every gene to potentially target and treat a broader range of diseases through genome engineering. The research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177494","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}