{"id":190957,"date":"2024-06-10T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/research-team-uses-crispr-cas9-to-alter-photosynthesis-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2024-06-10T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:22:31","slug":"research-team-uses-crispr-cas9-to-alter-photosynthesis-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/research-team-uses-crispr-cas9-to-alter-photosynthesis-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Research team uses CRISPR\/Cas9 to alter photosynthesis for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-team-uses-crispr-cas9-to-alter-photosynthesis-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team from the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) has produced an increase in gene expression in a food crop by changing its upstream regulatory DNA. While other studies have used CRISPR\/Cas9 gene-editing to knock out or decrease the expression of genes, new research published in <i>Science Advances<\/i> is the first unbiased gene-editing approach to increase gene expression and downstream photosynthetic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) has produced an increase in gene expression in a food crop by changing its upstream regulatory DNA. While other studies have used CRISPR\/Cas9 gene-editing to knock out or decrease the expression of genes, new research published in Science Advances is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190957","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}