CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 22, 2015, 2:06 p.m.
...CRISPR/Cas9 genetic circuits
References:
Nielsen AA, Voigt CA. Multi-input CRISPR/Cas genetic circuits...binding proteins with Cas9 guided by different promoters. The challenge in building genetic circuits is getting... to turn on genes at different times. It requires more complex synthetic networks.
Addgene: What hurdles... that stop it from being used. One thing is that Cas9 is toxic. When cells carry CRISPR circuitry, it ...on an engineering project including hundreds of genes and regulation and resource control - everything...gives us enough hardware to control hundreds of genes. We’ve created enough regulatory elements, CRISPRs...the scale of genetic engineering, with the ultimate objective of genome design.” It’s genetic engineering...