{"id":188186,"date":"2024-04-26T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/ai-designed-gene-editing-tools-successfully-modify-human-dna"},"modified":"2024-04-26T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T01:22:47","slug":"ai-designed-gene-editing-tools-successfully-modify-human-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/ai-designed-gene-editing-tools-successfully-modify-human-dna","title":{"rendered":"AI-designed gene editing tools successfully modify human DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-designed-gene-editing-tools-successfully-modify-human-dna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Medically, AI is helping us with everything from identifying <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/medical\/ai-atrial-fibrillation\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">abnormal heart rhythms before they happen<\/a> to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/medical\/fda-clearance-first-ai-powered-medical-device-detect-common-skin-cancers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">spotting skin cancer<\/a>. But do we really need it to get involved with our genome? Protein-design company Profluent believes we do.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2022 in Berkeley, California, Profluent has been exploring ways to use AI to study and generate new proteins that aren\u2019t found in nature. This week, the team trumpeted a major success with the release of an AI-derived protein termed OpenCRISPR-1.<\/p>\n<p>The protein is meant to work in the CRISPR gene-editing system, a process in which a protein cuts open a piece of DNA and repairs or replaces a gene. CRISPR has been actively in use for about 15 years, with its creators <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/science\/crispr-2020-nobel-prize-chemistry\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">bagging the Nobel prize in chemistry<\/a> in 2020. It has shown promise as a biomedical tool that can do everything from <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/biology\/vision-restored-mice-crispr\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">restoring vision<\/a> to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/medical\/crispr-gene-therapy-rare-blood-disease-ctx001-vertex\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">combating rare diseases<\/a>; as an agricultural tool that can <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/science\/tomatoes-crispr-genetic-engineering-vitamin-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">improve the vitamin D content of tomatoes<\/a>, and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/biology\/crispr-poplar-flowering-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">slash the flowering time of trees<\/a> from decades to months; and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medically, AI is helping us with everything from identifying abnormal heart rhythms before they happen to spotting skin cancer. But do we really need it to get involved with our genome? Protein-design company Profluent believes we do. Founded in 2022 in Berkeley, California, Profluent has been exploring ways to use AI to study and generate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19,1506,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188186","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=188186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}