News tagged with zinc fingers

Rapid method of assembling new gene-editing tool could revolutionize genetic research

Development of a new way to make a powerful tool for altering gene sequences should greatly increase the ability of researchers to knock out or otherwise alter the expression of any gene they are studying. The new method ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers create first targeted knockout rats using zinc finger nuclease technology

Scientists from The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Sangamo Biosciences, Inc., Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, Open Monoclonal Technology, Inc. (OMT) and INSERM today announced the creation of the first genetically ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Genome editing, a next step in genetic therapy, corrects hemophilia in animals

Using an innovative gene therapy technique called genome editing that hones in on the precise location of mutated DNA, scientists have treated the blood clotting disorder hemophilia in mice. This is the first time that genome ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists track variant of gene-regulating protein in embryonic stem cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- The path to fully developed cells from embryonic stem cells requires that the right genes are turned on and off at the right times. New research from Rockefeller University shows that tiny ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Technique enables efficient gene splicing in human embryonic stem cells

A novel technique allows researchers to efficiently and precisely modify or introduce genes into the genomes of human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, according to Whitehead scientists. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers develop faster method of engineering zinc-finger nucleases

A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has developed a faster way to engineer synthetic enzymes that target specific DNA sequences for inactivation, repair or alteration. The report from the MGH Molecular ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transcription factors guide differences in human and chimp brain function

Humans share at least 97 percent of their genes with chimpanzees, but, as a new study of transcription factors makes clear, what you have in your genome may be less important than how you use it.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researcher develop new technique for modifying plant genes

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Massachusetts General Hospital have used a genome engineering tool they developed to make a model crop plant herbicide-resistant without significant changes to its DNA.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A question of gene silencing

When investigating cancer cells, researchers discovered numerous peculiarities: Particular RNA molecules are present in large numbers, particular genes are overactive. Do these characteristics have a relation to cancer? Do ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protein interaction network can respond Helicobacter pylori infection?

Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) is a gram negative bacterium which infects about 50% of the world population. H pylori colonization causes a strong systemic immune response. Various tools have been employed to identify the rela ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The structure-based design of zinc finger nucleases can facilitate genomic editing

A recent study carried out at the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China-Research, and published in the May 2011 issue of Science China Life Sciences (Issue 54) de ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0