CASTing Off for New Shores in Human Genome Editing
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 10, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...occur naturally in bacteria. In the course of evolution, Tn7-like transposons captured and repurposed ...cells — at least, until they met the directed evolution expertise of the Samuel Sternberg and David Liu...stresses the host. The researchers suspected natural evolution would produce transposons with sub-maximal efficiency...and this barrier could be overcome by directed evolution using bacteriophages.
Researchers moved a gene... phage success was linked to CAST efficiency, evolution took over (with a little mutagenic assistance)...