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CRISPR/Cas9, a gene-editing technique that can target and modify DNA with groundbreaking accuracy, is both the newest darling and the newest villain of genetics research.Invented in 2012 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, CRISPR/Cas9 has received a lot of attention this year.f scientists are able to nail down the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in human germ cells, thereâs no question that it could confer major benefits. Namely, the technology could eradicate hereditary diseases such as cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anemia, and Huntingtonâs disease from a family line altogether.
Encoded in the DNA is some type of index that directs the molecular machinery to the start of the hemoglobin gene. When new hemoglobin is required, protein production is activated. The gene is read and the protein is manufactured. At the end of the gene is a message called a stop codon, which ends protein production. The manufacture of proteins using the instructions from the gene is called protein expression. Doug Prasher envisioned that it would be possible to use biomolecular techniques to insert the GFP gene at the end of the hemoglobin gene, right before the stop codon.