What Is Genome Editing?
Genome editing is a way of making specific changes to the DNA of a cell or organism. An enzyme cuts the DNA at a specific sequence, and as this is repaired by the cell a change or 'edit' is made to the sequence.
Topics
- methods
- biotechnology
- genome
- DNA
- cell
- enzyme
- edit
- sequences
- embryo
- leukaemia
- AIDS
- MRSA
- muscular dystrophy
- haemophilia
- engineered nuclease
- DNA repair
- bases
- cell division
- daughter cell
- point mutation
- RNA
- protein
- complementary
- base-pairing
- CRISPR
- Cas9
- ZFN
- Zinc Finger Nucleases
- FokI
- TALEN
- Transcription activator-like effector nucleases