A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University has developed a way to speed up the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing process by using light-sensitive nucleotides. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their process and its precision. Darpan Medhi and Maria Jasin with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have published a Perspective piece in the same journal issue outlining the evolution of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and giving an overview of the work done by the team in Baltimore.
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