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Scientists Use CRISPR Gene Editing to Create the World’s First Mutant Social Insect – Big Think

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2017-08-13 NEWS

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Scientists Use CRISPR Gene Editing to Create the World’s First Mutant Social Insect
Big Think
The team from Rockefeller University published a paper outlining how they removed orco – a gene that plays a key part in an ant’s odor receptors. Deleting the gene by using the CRISPR-Cas9 technique resulted in the ants losing about 90% of their
Scientists create world’s first mutant ants with gene editing technologyNEWS.com.au

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Crispr, porque Dios no quiso o no supo…
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Recientemente, una variante de este sistema de defensa microbiano ha sido identificado en cepas bacterianas de Prevotella y Francisella, al que se ha acuñado como CrisprCpf1. Estas novedosas enzimas son más pequeñas, eficientes y menos propensas …

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