Researchers engineer 'Cas9' animal models to study disease, inform drug discovery
Friday, September 26, 2014 - 05:30
in Biology & Nature
A new mouse model to simplify application of the CRISPR-Cas9 system for in vivo genome editing experiments. The researchers successfully used the new 'Cas9 mouse' model to edit multiple genes in a variety of cell types, and to model lung adenocarcinoma, one of the most lethal human cancers.