BIOL 2020 Lecture 2: BIOL 2020 - Lecture 2
13 Jan 2019
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Biol 2020 lecture 2 january 9, 2019 short history and context. Modern cell biology is a combination of genetics, biochemistry, and cytology. Three particular reasons: cell manipulation/ gene editing, crispr/cas9 (2012) Jennifer doudna uc berkeley: emmanuelle charpentier uc berkeley (now. Max planck institute, berlin: feng zhang harvard/mit. Usda says ok to genetically modified mushrooms that don"t bruise or turn brown. For the first time, crispr has been used to dramatically change flower color. We just took a huge step closer to organ transplant from pigs into humans. Thanks to a life-science company"s confirmed ability to create pigs completely free of a potentially infectious virus, we"re closer than ever to delivering human transplant organs from pigs. Crispr gene-editing tested in a person for the first time: a chinese group has become the first to inject a person with cells that contain genes edited using the revolutionary.
