
Scientists Use Cryo-Electron Microscope to Catch CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing in Action
Published: 8/13/2019Tagged:FREDERICK, Md. -- CRISPR is one of the most widely used technologies in the nascent quest to edit the human genome, and the precision “instrument” that makes it so effective is Cas9, a programmable enzyme harnessed from bacterial cells that cuts DNA strands at specific targets and replaces one gene with another.