Engineering ‘Hairpins’ Increases CRISPR Accuracy

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 08:40 in Biology & Nature

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method for improving the accuracy of the CRISPR genome editing technology by an average of 50-fold. They believe it can be easily translated to any of the editing technology’s continually expanding formats. The approach adds a short tail to the guide RNA which is used to identify […]

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