{"id":85291,"date":"2018-11-30T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/new-research-could-fine-tune-the-gene-scissors-crispr"},"modified":"2018-11-30T05:43:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:43:39","slug":"new-research-could-fine-tune-the-gene-scissors-crispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/new-research-could-fine-tune-the-gene-scissors-crispr","title":{"rendered":"New research could fine-tune the gene scissors CRISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-could-fine-tune-the-gene-scissors-crispr.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The introduction of the gene editing tool CRISPR in 2007 was a revolution in medical science and cell biology. But even though the potential is great, the launch of CRISPR has been followed by debate about ethical issues and the technology\u2019s degree of accuracy and side effects.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a new study published in <i>Cell<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/researchers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">researchers<\/a> from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research have described how Cas12a, one of the CRISPR technologies, works at the molecular level. This makes it possible to fine-tune the gene-editing process to achieve specific desired effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we compare CRISPR to a car engine, what we have done is make a complete 3D map of the engine and thus gained an understanding of how it works. This knowledge will enable us to fine-tune the CRISPR engine and make it work in various ways\u2014as a Formula 1 racer as well as an off-road truck,\u201d says Professor Guillermo Montoya from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-fine-tune-gene-scissors-crispr.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-fine-tune-gene-scissors-crispr.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The introduction of the gene editing tool CRISPR in 2007 was a revolution in medical science and cell biology. But even though the potential is great, the launch of CRISPR has been followed by debate about ethical issues and the technology\u2019s degree of accuracy and side effects. However, in a new study published in Cell, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85291","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}