{"id":72309,"date":"2017-09-02T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/online-game-challenges-players-to-design-onoff-switch-for-crispr"},"modified":"2017-09-02T14:42:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T21:42:54","slug":"online-game-challenges-players-to-design-onoff-switch-for-crispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/online-game-challenges-players-to-design-onoff-switch-for-crispr","title":{"rendered":"Online game challenges players to design on\/off switch for CRISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IGYpu4BVnhA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Stanford team has launched a new challenge on the Eterna computer game. Players will design a CRISPR-controlling molecule, and with it open the possibility of new research and therapies.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/\">Stanford University School of Medicine<\/a> has launched a new challenge for the online computer game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eternagame.org\/web\/\">Eterna<\/a> in which players are being asked to design an RNA molecule capable of acting as an on\/off switch for the gene-editing tool CRISPR\/Cas9.<\/p>\n<p>Molecular biologists will then build and test the actual molecules, based on the most promising designs provided by the players.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/all-news\/2017\/08\/online-game-challenges-players-to-design-on-off-switch-for-crispr.html\">http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/all-news\/2017\/08\/online-game-ch...rispr.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stanford team has launched a new challenge on the Eterna computer game. Players will design a CRISPR-controlling molecule, and with it open the possibility of new research and therapies. A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has launched a new challenge for the online computer game Eterna in which players [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1509,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-entertainment","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72309","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}