{"id":184195,"date":"2024-03-02T05:25:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/from-a-year-down-to-two-weeks-chinese-scientists-create-efficient-plant-gene-editing-tool-that-leapfrogs-over-tedious-steps"},"modified":"2024-03-02T05:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:25:08","slug":"from-a-year-down-to-two-weeks-chinese-scientists-create-efficient-plant-gene-editing-tool-that-leapfrogs-over-tedious-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/from-a-year-down-to-two-weeks-chinese-scientists-create-efficient-plant-gene-editing-tool-that-leapfrogs-over-tedious-steps","title":{"rendered":"From a year down to two weeks: Chinese scientists create efficient plant gene editing tool that leapfrogs over \u2018tedious\u2019 steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-a-year-down-to-two-weeks-chinese-scientists-create-efficient-plant-gene-editing-tool-that-leapfrogs-over-tedious-steps.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven primary school students and old farmers can master gene editing,\u201d says [Southern University of Science and Technology, or SUSTech] scientist Zhu Jian-Kang, who has helped develop a new approach that could greatly simplify the difficult and time-consuming process of editing genes in plants.<\/p>\n<p>While conventional methods of heritable gene editing in plants often take months, and in some cases up to a year, this innovative approach could reduce the process to about two weeks, according to [Cao Xuesong, a scientist at SUSTech and a member of Zhu\u2019s team], who is also the first author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEven primary school students and old farmers can master gene editing,\u201d says [Southern University of Science and Technology, or SUSTech] scientist Zhu Jian-Kang, who has helped develop a new approach that could greatly simplify the difficult and time-consuming process of editing genes in plants. While conventional methods of heritable gene editing in plants often take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184195","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=184195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}