{"id":237417,"date":"2026-05-19T22:06:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/discovery-and-engineering-of-retrons-for-precise-genome-editing"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:06:03","slug":"discovery-and-engineering-of-retrons-for-precise-genome-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/discovery-and-engineering-of-retrons-for-precise-genome-editing","title":{"rendered":"Discovery and engineering of retrons for precise genome editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-and-engineering-of-retrons-for-precise-genome-editing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An extremely interesting new technology which combines bacterial retrons with CRISPR-Cas for localized generation of single-stranded DNA inserts and subsequent targeted genome editing. I remember reading about retrons as an obscure biological phenomenon years ago in a monograph called Mobile DNA III, so it\u2019s awesome to see them leveraged in this way!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A metagenomic screen identifies retron reverse transcriptases for precise genome-editing applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extremely interesting new technology which combines bacterial retrons with CRISPR-Cas for localized generation of single-stranded DNA inserts and subsequent targeted genome editing. I remember reading about retrons as an obscure biological phenomenon years ago in a monograph called Mobile DNA III, so it\u2019s awesome to see them leveraged in this way! A metagenomic screen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237417","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\/237417","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}