Acronym of CRISPR

( Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats ) Alternately, short indented regular cluster or briefly (CRISPR), part of the DNA are those that contain, alternately, a short sequence fundamental.

sort of immune system adaptation in the bacteria that it is able to discover the DNA of the virus and later, turning. Part of the system ., the protein called 9 (Cas9) is the ability to search, cut, and finally, transmuting the DNA of the virus to a special method. Technology to allow scientists, etc. changes in the DNA of cells, creating.

the use of technology on humans:
the first experiment editing gene, CRISPR-Cas9, a ... October 28, 2016, for the treatment of lung cancer was conducted. In this experiment, a group of Chinese, led by Lu Yo from the University of Sichuan in the city of Chengdu, China. immune cells a person suffering from lung cancer, for take-out gene, causing the protein PD-1 is turned off. Protein PD-1 function, immune cells slows down and cancer cells to allow the release. After editing the cells to kill them and, again, to the patient injection.

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