How to precisely edit mitochondrial DNA

· by · in Biotechnology industry, iPS Cells, Personalized Therapies, Regenerative Medicine. ·


While precisely editing the DNA in a cell’s nucleus (blue) has become easier thanks to advances like CRISPR/Cas-9, it’s been much harder to edit DNA in the mitochondria (red). Now, a new tool brings precision gene editing to mitochondrial DNA. Credit: Tslil Ast/Mootha Lab
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-molecular-tool-precisely-mitochondrial-dna.html

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