New tool for rapidly analyzing CRISPR edits reveals frequent production of unintended edits

Friday, December 6, 2019 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

Amidst rising hopes for using CRISPR gene editing tools to repair deadly mutations linked to conditions like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, a new study in the Nature journal Communications Biology describes a new innovation that could accelerate this work by rapidly revealing unintended and potentially harmful changes introduced by a gene editing process. … Continue reading New tool for rapidly analyzing CRISPR edits reveals frequent production of unintended edits

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