CRISPR Gene Editing (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

CRISPR Gene Editing

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Associate professor of Plant Science at the University of Maryland Yiping Qi continues to innovate genome editing and engineering in plants, with the ultimate goal of improving the efficiency of food production. His new work contributes six novel variants of CRISPR-Cas12a in plants, testing first in rice as a major global crop. In addition to broadening possible gene editing targets, these tools can edit many different sites at once, or even repress gene expression.

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