Scientists from the US have unveiled two new molecular editing tools designed to take care of the mutations that are behind the majority of genetic diseases striking humans and possibly offer a disease-free world to human beings very soon. These tools might also be able to fix mutations of diseases which have no treatment and are deadly but not common.
Researchers from Harvard University, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard offer a highly precise way to fix single-letter mistakes in genes, which are stretches of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA.Another research focuses on editing ribonucleic acid or RNA, which carries the genetic instructions to make proteins, without altering DNA. Both techniques combine together to build the game-changing CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool, which is a type of molecular scissor for trimming unwanted parts of the human genome to replace with new stretches of…
