{"id":437174,"date":"2018-02-07T10:39:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=51e07e4ba96006449add47841e26803f"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:39:25","slug":"equipping-crisprcas9-with-an-enzyme-that-controls-translation-of-genetic-information-into-protein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=437174","title":{"rendered":"Equipping CRISPR\/Cas9 with an enzyme that controls translation of genetic information into protein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR\/Cas systems are known as promising &#8220;gene scissors,&#8221; editing the genomes of plants, animals and microorganisms by targeting specific regions in their DNA. They might also be used to correct genetic defects. A team of scientists led by Juliane Behler and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess from the University of Freiburg have now identified an enzyme that functions as a pair of RNA scissors involved in CRISPR\/Cas systems and the correct regulation of gene expression\u2014it reads genes and translates their information into proteins. The researchers have published their work in the scientific journal Nature Microbiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR\/Cas systems are known as promising &#8220;gene scissors,&#8221; editing the genomes of plants, animals and microorganisms by targeting specific regions in their DNA. They might also be used to correct genetic defects. A team of scientists led by Juliane Behler and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess from the University of Freiburg have now identified an enzyme that functions as a pair of RNA scissors involved in CRISPR\/Cas systems and the correct regulation of gene expression&mdash;it reads genes and translates their information into proteins. The researchers have published their work in the scientific journal Nature Microbiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437175,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437174\/revisions\/437175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}