Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
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...mutation site, indicating that repair proceeded through NHEJ rather than HDR.
Figure 1: Homology-directed... employing HDR.
Ma et al. moved forward with gRNA 1 to conduct microinjection experiments in S phase zygotes...instead from the mother’s wild type allele (Figure 1). 72.4% of embryos carried two wild-type copies of...thus allowing repair to take place before DNA replication. Indeed, they observed that 41/42 embryos were...attributable to CRISPR editing.
Conclusions & implications
One striking feature of this paper is the failure... need to be much, much lower before clinical applications could be considered.
It is important to consider...experiments are needed before we can consider clinical applications for germline editing. Although this paper represents...