{"id":73752,"date":"2017-11-13T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/an-astonishing-video-shows-crispr-editing-dna-in-real-time"},"modified":"2017-11-13T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T01:22:28","slug":"an-astonishing-video-shows-crispr-editing-dna-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/an-astonishing-video-shows-crispr-editing-dna-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"An Astonishing Video Shows CRISPR Editing DNA in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-astonishing-video-shows-crispr-editing-dna-in-real-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In June, several dozen scientists flew to <a href=\"https:\/\/tofu.msu.montana.edu\/cs\/crispr_2017\/page\/agenda\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'link',r'0',r'545603'\">Big Sky, Montana,<\/a> to discuss the latest in CRISPR research. They had a lot to talk about, given that CRISPR\u2014a tool that allows scientists to cut DNA to disable genes or insert new ones\u2014is currently the hottest topic in biology, mentioned in the same breath as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/07\/crispr-dna-editing-2\/\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'link',r'1',r'545603'\">pronouncements<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/gene-editing-crispr-cure-cancer-inherited-diseases-flawed-mutations-side-effects-a7761666.html\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'link',r'2',r'545603'\">like<\/a> \u201cchanging the world\u201d and \u201ccuring humanity of disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the second day in Big Sky, a Japanese researcher named Osamu Nureki got up to play a short movie clip. \u201cI was sitting in the front, and I just heard this gasp from everyone behind me,\u201d says Sam Sternberg, who worked in the CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna\u2019s lab at the University of California, Berkeley. It was, he says, the biggest reaction to data he\u2019s ever seen at a conference.<\/p>\n<p>Nureki\u2019s paper was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-017-01466-8\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'link',r'3',r'545603'\">published in <em>Nature Communications<\/em><\/a> Friday, and by early morning, the video that astonished the room in Big Sky was making the rounds on science Twitter, too. I watched it, still bleary-eyed from sleep, and I jolted awake immediately.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/11\/crispr-video-real-time\/545603\/?utm_source=twb\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/11\/crispr-v...source=twb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, several dozen scientists flew to Big Sky, Montana, to discuss the latest in CRISPR research. They had a lot to talk about, given that CRISPR\u2014a tool that allows scientists to cut DNA to disable genes or insert new ones\u2014is currently the hottest topic in biology, mentioned in the same breath as pronouncements like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73752","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}