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Professor van der Oost and his team at Wageningen University in the Netherlands have spent the last three years working out the molecular details of the immune system called CRISPR that is present in bacteria.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Professor van der Oost and his team at Wageningen University in the Netherlands have spent the last three years working out the molecular details of the immune system called CRISPR that is present in bacteria.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Through the combination of CRISPR and squads of CRISPR-associated - "Cas" - proteins, microbes are able to utilize small customized RNA molecules to silence critical portions of an invader's genetic message and acquire immunity from similar invasions in the future.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The recently discovered CRISPR defence system differs from the immune system in higher organisms in that acquired immunity can be passed down future generations.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The crRNAs used by the CRISPR/cas system for the targeted interference of foreign DNA join the growing ranks of small RNA molecules that mediate a variety of processes in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The recently discovered CRISPR defence system differs from the immune system in higher organisms in that acquired immunity can be passed down future generations.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Understanding the exact mechanisms of the CRISPR defence system could have big economic rewards for industry.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Understanding the exact mechanisms of the CRISPR defence system could have big economic rewards for industry.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Top-left - holes in the lawn (plaques) caused by growth perturbation due to phage; Bottom - when equipped with the right components of the CRISPR/Cas defense system, the bacteria became resistant to virus infection.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Top-left - holes in the lawn (plaques) caused by growth perturbation due to phage; Bottom - when equipped with the right components of the CRISPR/Cas defense system, the bacteria became resistant to virus infection.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Researchers created the mosquitoes by using the powerful new gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, which Mueller likens to a "molecular scissor which can cut at a specific site in the DNA."
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A gene editing tool, sounds like they're describing grammar or poetry.
December 3, 2017