Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System
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...to understand the basis for cardiovascular and metabolic human diseases. They do that by studying patients...disease-associated genes.
Addgene spoke to Musunuru about how the new kit works, the research the kit now ...number of genes involved in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. We are knocking out genes that have ...to examine the effect of a gene on cholesterol metabolism. The TALEN kit is quite useful in generating ...disease modeling in stem cells.
Addgene: Tell me about the history. How had investigators done this kind...