Metabolic Engineering
January 9, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
CRISPR gene editing usually targets one DNA sequence at a time, but now researchers at the University of Illinois’ Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology have shown how it’s possible to access up to 20 targets simultaneously. They call this CRISPR-AID (AID initials for activation, interference, deletion). With high throughput screening and robotic handling, the aim is to speed up the combinatorial chemistry of synthetic microbiology. MORE
Image Credit: University of Illinois’ Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology