Human Genome Editing (Microbes as Machines)

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Overview of CRISPR technology [3].

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"Genome engineering by RNA-programmable Cas9 promises to have broad applications in synthetic biology, direct and multiplexed perturbation of gene networks, and targeted ex vivo and in vivo gene therapy" [3].

Required Reading/Viewing

  1. Cyranoski D and Reardon S. Apr 22 2015. Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos Nature News [Cyranoski2015]
  2. Zimmer C. Apr 22 2015. Editing Human Embryos: So This Happened National Geographic Blogs: The Loom [Zimmer2015]

Assigned Papers

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  1. Error fetching PMID 23467164: [Charpentier2013]
  2. Error fetching PMID 23287722: [Mali2014]
    These two short ones go together. The second is more technical.
  3. Error fetching PMID 25894090: [Liang2015]
  4. Error fetching PMID 25810189: [Lanphier2015]
  5. Error fetching PMID 25791083: [Baltimore2015]
All Medline abstracts: PubMed | HubMed

Additional Resources

  1. Science Special Collection: The CRISPR Revolution [Science]