Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
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...semen samples. Ma et al. designed plasmids containing Cas9 and two different gRNAs, and electroporated them... as on-target editing rates vary widely from gRNA to gRNA, it’s unclear where this study would fall in...stem cells made from the patient. With the first gRNA, they noted low editing efficiency, with a total...cells. The results were even lower for the second gRNA: 13.1% targeting efficiency with only 13% of edited...cells employing HDR.
Ma et al. moved forward with gRNA 1 to conduct microinjection experiments in S phase... at 3 days post fertilization.
Since Ma et al. designed a repair template with two synonymous mutations...thus quieting some fears about the creation of “designer babies.”
The differences in editing between iPS...