A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture
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Blog Post
Published
Feb. 25, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
...of the DNA. Finally, in 1953, Franklin along with James Watson and Francis Crick resolved the DNA double...letters of the DNA get translated into the twenty amino acids. Once scientists established that DNA encoded ...dinosaurs by extracting the DNA from fossilized amber and supplementing it with the DNA of present-day frogs ...enzymes generated by fusing a zinc finger DNA-binding domain to a DNA-cleavage domain (FokI). Zinc finger nucleases...designed in 2005. The DNA-binding domain can be engineered to target specific DNA sequences while FokI ...TALENs) were engineered. TALENs follow a DNA-binding and DNA-cleaving strategy similar to the ZFNs, but...mutations, delete short stretches of DNA and even insert new DNA at the target genomic loci.
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