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A colored scanning electron micrograph of hematopoietic stem cells. Cannon and colleagues report efficient genome editing in human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells using zinc finger nuclease mRNA and AAV6 donor DNA (p 1256). Credit: SPL/Science Source
Here's hoping that a proposed shakeup of US regulations will mean that new biotech products avoid AquaAdvantage salmon's two-decade upstream struggle to regulatory approval.
Use of sophisticated reductionist and whole-system approaches are providing much-needed technologies to unravel the complex mélange of microbiome functions.
Cpf1 is one of a growing number of class II CRISPR-Cas effectors that expand both our understanding of bacterial immunity and our genome-editing toolset.
