Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System
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...stem cells edited to carry mutant versions of 15 different disease-associated genes.
Addgene spoke to Musunuru...mutations. Once that's done in stem cells, we can differentiate those mutant and wild type stem cells into any...all have the mutations but they will also have different genetic backgrounds. It becomes more of an apples-to-oranges...suggest TALENs may be cleaner than CRISPR/Cas9.
Reference:
Quirong Ding et al. "A TALEN genome-editing system...