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A new gene-editing system tackles complex diseases - EurekAlert


<p>Current methods to model or correct mutations in live cells are inefficient, especially when multiplexing &mdash; installing multiple point mutations simultaneously across the genome. Researchers from the UC San Diego have developed new, efficient genome editing tools called multiplexed orthogonal base editors (MOBEs) to install multiple point mutations at once. Their work, led by Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Alexis Komor&rsquo;s lab, appears in Nature Biotechnology.</p>

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