Gene Editing Gets Safer Thanks to Redesigned Protein

March 2, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
illustration of broken apart DNA structures

UT Austin researchers were surprised to discover that when Cas9 encounters a mismatch in a certain part of the DNA (red and green), instead of giving up and moving on, it has a finger-like structure (cyan) that swoops in and holds on to the DNA, making it act as if it were the correct sequence. Credit: Jack Bravo/University of Texas at Austin.


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