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  • Genome-editing proteins seek and find with a slide and a hop

    Jun 1, 2015 10:00 am by Elizabeth AhlbergResearch
    Professor Huimin Zhao, professor Charles Schroeder, graduate students Luke Cuculis and Zhanar Abil

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    • Professor Huimin Zhao, professor Charles Schroeder, graduate students Luke Cuculis and Zhanar Abil

    University of Illinois researchers have observed how one set of genome-editing proteins finds its specific targets, which could help them design better gene therapies to treat disease.