Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
...controls.) 27.6% of embryos carried indels at the mutation site, indicating that repair proceeded through NHEJ...move forward from this work.
Experiments & major findings
Let’s start with the paper itself: Ma et al. were...electroporated them with an ssODN repair template in induced pluripotent stem cells made from the patient. With...allowing repair to take place before DNA replication. Indeed, they observed that 41/42 embryos were non-mosaic...using the provided ssODN template. In fact, this finding led the authors to title the paper “Correction ...pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) screens embryos to find those that do not carry a given dominant disease-causing...pregnancy, the researchers were able to examine each individual blastomere to determine its genotype. However...