{"id":98632,"date":"2019-11-16T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T09:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/youve-heard-of-crispr-now-meet-its-newer-savvier-cousin-crispr-prime"},"modified":"2019-11-17T00:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T08:01:04","slug":"youve-heard-of-crispr-now-meet-its-newer-savvier-cousin-crispr-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/youve-heard-of-crispr-now-meet-its-newer-savvier-cousin-crispr-prime","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve heard of CRISPR, now meet its newer, savvier cousin CRISPR Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youve-heard-of-crispr-now-meet-its-newer-savvier-cousin-crispr-prime.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CRISPR, the revolutionary ability to snip out and alter genes with <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/11\/06\/wtf-is-crispr\/\">scissor-like precision<\/a>, has exploded in popularity over the last few years and is generally seen as the standalone wizard of modern gene-editing. However, it\u2019s not a perfect system, sometimes cutting at the wrong place, not working as intended and leaving scientists scratching their heads. Well, now there\u2019s a new, more exacting upgrade to CRISPR called Prime, with the ability to, in theory, snip out more than 90% of all genetic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Just what is this new method and how does it work? We turned to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573150594361000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE3zkAjl1Q-zKbnGVM21LMVtdKByw\">IEEE<\/a> fellow, biomedical researcher and dean of graduate education at Tuft University\u2019s school of engineering Karen Panetta for an explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR, the revolutionary ability to snip out and alter genes with scissor-like precision, has exploded in popularity over the last few years and is generally seen as the standalone wizard of modern gene-editing. However, it\u2019s not a perfect system, sometimes cutting at the wrong place, not working as intended and leaving scientists scratching their heads. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98632","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=98632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98664,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98632\/revisions\/98664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}