Tackling antibiotic resistance head-on with CRISPR
Tackling antibiotic resistance head-on with CRISPR
Tags: Gene drive synthetic, Other SymbiontsThomas, L., News Medical Life Sciences, 2019.
With modern advances in genetic engineering occurring almost every day, the latest discovery concerns antibiotic resistance. Using the powerful gene editor CRISPR, scientists reported the development of a gene-drive system that is 100 times as efficient as other current systems at inactivating a specific bacterial gene responsible for making the bacterium antibiotic-resistant and which is present as multiple copies within the same bacterial cell. The paper, published on December 16, 2019, in the journal Nature Communications, uses the technology called active genetics, pioneered by biologists at UC San Diego.
