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Genome editing: progress and challenges for medical applications

The development of the CRISPR-Cas platform for genome editing has greatly simplified the process of making targeted genetic modifications. Applications of genome editing are expected to have a substantial impact on human therapies through the development of better animal models, new target discovery...

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Autor principal: Carroll, Dana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27846896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-016-0378-9
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spelling pubmed-51112682016-11-25 Genome editing: progress and challenges for medical applications Carroll, Dana Genome Med Comment The development of the CRISPR-Cas platform for genome editing has greatly simplified the process of making targeted genetic modifications. Applications of genome editing are expected to have a substantial impact on human therapies through the development of better animal models, new target discovery, and direct therapeutic intervention. BioMed Central 2016-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5111268/ /pubmed/27846896 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-016-0378-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111268/
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