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    end joining (NHEJ). Genome editing was pioneered in the 1990s, before the advent of the common current nuclease-based gene editing platforms but its use...
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    complements for genome editing. Methods to control genome editing with small molecules include an allosteric Cas9, with no detectable background editing, that will...
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  • Off-target genome editing refers to nonspecific and unintended genetic modifications that can arise through the use of engineered nuclease technologies...
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    concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who edited the genomes of human embryos in 2018...
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  • methodologies similar to precursor genome editing technologies, including CRISPR/Cas9 and base editors. Prime editing has been used on some animal models...
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    products, and treatment of diseases. The development of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technique was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 which...
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    form of genome editing tool. Other genome editing tools include targeted mutagenesis, base editing and prime editing, all of which create edits to the...
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    with Emmanuelle Charpentier, "for the development of a method for genome editing." She is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor in the department...
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    particularly in the field of biomedicine. The technology of CRISPR genome editing raises ethical questions for several reasons. To be more specific, concerns...
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  • institutions. The IGI focuses on developing real-world applications of genome editing to address problems in human health, agriculture and climate change...
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    thus stopping the infection, was appropriated in 2012 for use as a genome-editing tool that could potentially alter any piece of DNA and later RNA. Friedrich...
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    introduced into cells, for use in gene editing or for genome editing in situ, a technique known as genome editing with engineered nucleases. Alongside zinc...
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    genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes...
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  • operation of human embryo genome editing for reproductive purposes." The first known publication of research into human germline editing was by a group of Chinese...
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    de-extinction. Cloning is the most widely proposed method, although genome editing and selective breeding have also been considered. Similar techniques...
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    He Jiankui (category Genome editing)
    world's first genome-edited babies, Lulu and Nana. Formally presenting the story at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the University...
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  • No-SCAR genome editing is an editing method that is able to manipulate the Escherichia coli (E. coli) genome. The system relies on recombineering whereby...
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  • papaya ringspot virus. Genome editing is the use of an enzyme system to modify the DNA directly within the cell. Genome editing is used to develop herbicide...
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    mutation. Many different genome editing techniques have been used for genome editing, and especially germline mutation editing in germ cells and developing...
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    Designer baby (category Genome editing)
    which a baby's genetic information can be altered involve directly editing the genome before birth, which is not routinely performed and only one instance...
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    genome editing. Genome editing uses artificially engineered nucleases that create specific double-stranded breaks at desired locations in the genome,...
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    Medicine (genome editing with CRISPR nucleases for human therapeutics), Pairwise Plants (genome editing for agriculture), Beam Therapeutics (base editing for...
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  • Zinc-finger nuclease (category Genome editing)
    Alongside CRISPR/Cas9 and TALEN, ZFN is a prominent tool in the field of genome editing. The DNA-binding domains of individual ZFNs typically contain between...
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    Cas9 (category Genome editing)
    main function is to cut DNA and thereby alter a cell's genome. The CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technique was a significant contributor to the Nobel Prize...
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  • gene editing company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 2006, Precision is focused on developing both in vivo and ex vivo gene editing therapies...
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  • aforementioned process of genome editing. Standing for 'Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats', CRISPR gene editing allows scientists to...
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    achieve this goal, including cloning, artificial insemination, and genome editing. Whether or not it is ethical to create a live mammoth is debated. In...
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    patients, editing a chromosome and returning the transformed cells to patients. Gene editing is a potential approach to alter the human genome to treat...
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  • Protospacer adjacent motif (category Genome editing)
    nucleobases. Guide RNAs can transport Cas9 to any locus in the genome for gene editing, but no editing can occur at any site other than one at which Cas9 recognizes...
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    CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, coupled with libraries of single guide RNAs (sgRNAs), which are designed to target every gene in the genome. Over recent...
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