New genome editing technique can target single letters of DNA sequence
Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
Building off the powerful gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, researchers have created a new tool that can target and change a single letter in a sequence of DNA. The new technique, known as base editing, can be programmed to turn the DNA base cytosine (known in the DNA alphabet as C) into...