{"id":23449,"date":"2016-03-12T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/modified-crispr-can-act-as-a-toggle-switch-to-silence-genes"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:50:37","slug":"modified-crispr-can-act-as-a-toggle-switch-to-silence-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/modified-crispr-can-act-as-a-toggle-switch-to-silence-genes","title":{"rendered":"Modified CRISPR Can Act As A Toggle Switch To Silence Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/modified-crispr-can-act-as-a-toggle-switch-to-silence-genes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CRISPR may have burst on the scene as a revolutionary gene editing tool, but it\u2019s proving to be so much more. Tagging the targeting system with a gene silencing component could revolutionise stem cell work and enable a new level of genetic control we\u2019ve never seen before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A wonder tool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Efficient and accurate, CRISPR may be in the throes of a patent battle but it\u2019s undoubtedly going down in history as a landmark in biological science. There may be other similar systems out there, but CRISPR makes things quick and comparatively cheap \u2014 which tends to revolutionise any industry.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2016\/3\/10\/modified-crispr-can\">http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2016\/3\/10\/modified-crispr-can<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR may have burst on the scene as a revolutionary gene editing tool, but it\u2019s proving to be so much more. Tagging the targeting system with a gene silencing component could revolutionise stem cell work and enable a new level of genetic control we\u2019ve never seen before. A wonder tool Efficient and accurate, CRISPR may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50919,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449\/revisions\/50919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}