Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015
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...using bacterial phage vectors with CRISPR/cas9 sensitizing gene cassettes. Thse vectors are engineered to... tetracycline cas9 inducible knock-out system. His lab is also exploring the use of cas9 proteins from...were identified for 61 such diseases. Now single gene alleles have been identified for 4,163, over 50%...Lowe talked about his work on the 500+ human tRNA genes and, until now, we've overlooked regulatory fragments...may be involved in preventing silencing of self-genes. Dr. Mello presented a hypothesis that these pathways...involved in RNA based surveillance of repetitive gene families and provide a way to guide inheritance ... to replace the drug resistantance genes in the bacteria thus making the bacteria sensitive to known antibotics...