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Intrinsic targeting of host RNA by Cas13 constrains its utility
Abudayyeh, O. O. et al. C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector. Science 353, aaf5573 (2016). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Terns, M. P. CRISPR-based technologies: impact of RNA-targeting systems. Mol. Cell 72, 404–412 (2018). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Abudayyeh, O. O. et al….
McGill iGEM takes on innovative synthetic biology research
Many undergraduate students desire to delve into research at McGill in labs led by primary investigators and professors. Undergraduates themselves, however, have equally promising initiatives to lead exciting investigations. One of these student groups, McGill iGEM, is an undergraduate synthetic biology research team that has made impressive progress in recent…
Genome Editing Tool Looks Beyond CRISPR and Prime
Omar Abudayyeh, PhD, McGovern fellow at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research A recently patented genome editing tool called PASTE holds genuine promise for expanding the universe of treatable genetic diseases. The approach combines elements of CRISPR and prime editing with a pair of enzymes designed to enable the integration…
Cryo-EM structure and protease activity of the type III-E CRISPR-Cas effector
Hampton, H. G., Watson, B. N. J. & Fineran, P. C. The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes. Nature 577, 327–336 (2020). Article CAS Google Scholar Makarova, K. S. et al. Evolution and classification of the CRISPR-Cas systems. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 9, 467–477 (2011). Article CAS Google Scholar …
Convenience-sized RNA editing | MIT News
Last year, researchers at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research discovered and characterized Cas7-11, the first CRISPR enzyme capable of making precise, guided cuts to strands of RNA without harming cells in the process. Now, working with collaborators at the University of Tokyo, the same team has revealed that Cas7-11…
RNA-targeting enzyme expands the CRISPR toolkit
McGovern Fellows Jonathan Gootenberg (left) and Omar Abudayyeh in their lab. Credit: Caitlin Cunningham Researchers at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research have discovered a bacterial enzyme that they say could expand scientists’ CRISPR toolkit, making it easy to cut and edit RNA with the kind of precision that, until…
CRISPR Convenience: Cas7-11 Redefines RNA Editing
Scientists, typically, are on their own after their post-doc ends. Sometimes, albeit rarely, they team up, blending their ideas, money, and people. Connie Cepko, PhD, and Cliff Tabin, PhD, pioneered the idea of a lab partnership, spending the last few decades working together in their shared lab at Harvard Medical…