1. Prime Editing: Precision Genome Editing by Reverse Transcription
- Author
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Ann Cirincione, Britt Adamson, and Jun Yan
- Subjects
0303 health sciences ,Cell Biology ,Computational biology ,Biology ,Genome ,Reverse transcriptase ,Prime (order theory) ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,genomic DNA ,0302 clinical medicine ,chemistry ,Genome editing ,sense organs ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Molecular Biology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,DNA ,030304 developmental biology ,Sequence (medicine) - Abstract
Genome editing is a method for making targeted sequence changes to the genomes of living cells. Prime editing, recently reported by Anzalone et al. (2019), is a new technology that uses reverse transcription to "write" programmed sequence changes into genomic DNA and thus promises significant technical advances.
- Published
- 2020