Huntington disease (HD) derives its eponymous title from Dr George Huntington, who described multiple affected individuals in a large North American kindred in 1872. His paper, published in the Philadelphia journalย The Medical and Surgical Reporter, gave a graphic description of the progressive neurological disability that has endowed HD with the […]
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Genome Editing with CRISPER-Cas9 system
The CRISPR-Cas9 system is a new tool that allows genome-editing. Discovered as โimmunityโ mechanism in bacteria, it is now used by researchers to modify and manipulate an organismโs DNA .The method is based on a short sequence of RNA (called โguideโ) that binds to a specific target sequence on a […]