{"id":76745,"date":"2018-03-11T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/gene-editing-just-got-so-precise-researchers-can-change-single-letters-of-dna-code"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:03:26","slug":"gene-editing-just-got-so-precise-researchers-can-change-single-letters-of-dna-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/gene-editing-just-got-so-precise-researchers-can-change-single-letters-of-dna-code","title":{"rendered":"Gene Editing Just Got So Precise, Researchers Can Change Single Letters of DNA Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-editing-just-got-so-precise-researchers-can-change-single-letters-of-dna-code.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MhAX, or Microhomology-Assisted eXcision.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Gene editing has the power to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/crispr-genetic-engineering-change-world\/\">completely reshape our world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It promises everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/first-u-s-human-embryo-gene-editing-experiment-successfully-corrects-a-heart-condition\/\">fixing the genetic faults<\/a> that lead to disease, to destroying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/modified-viruses-deliver-death-to-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-1.22173\">disease-causing microbes<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cshl.edu\/plant-geneticists-develop-new-application-crispr-break-yield-barriers-crops\/\">improving the nutrition<\/a> of the foods we eat and even <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/13\/long-extinct-species-to-be-revived-in-the-lab-with-powerful-new-tools\/#sm.00014iwjg29b3dl4vxz2a85tjt03u\">resurrecting extinct species like the wooly mammoth<\/a> \u2014 all largely thanks to the genetic editing tool CRISPR, which has both popularized this work and made it possible.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers in Japan have developed a new gene editing technique that uses CRISPR alongside a DNA repair system to modify a single DNA base in the human genome, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2018-03\/ku-sc030218.php\">what the team\u2019s press release calls<\/a> \u201cabsolute precision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-can-now-precisely-modify-individual-letters-of-dna-code?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-can-now-precisely-mo...rePageSign<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MhAX, or Microhomology-Assisted eXcision. Gene editing has the power to completely reshape our world. It promises everything from fixing the genetic faults that lead to disease, to destroying disease-causing microbes, to improving the nutrition of the foods we eat and even resurrecting extinct species like the wooly mammoth \u2014 all largely thanks to the genetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76745","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76764,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76745\/revisions\/76764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}