
Keywords: prion disease
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Investigating CRISPR/Cas9 gene drive for production of disease-preventing prion gene allelesA. R. Castle, S. Wohlgemuth, L. Arce and D. Westaway, PLoS One, 17:e0269342. 2022.![]() Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders that includes chronic wasting disease, which affects cervids and is highly transmissible. Given that chronic wasting disease prevalence exceeds 30% in some endemic areas of North America, and that eventual ... Keywords: Cas 9, CRISPR, gene drive synthetic, prion disease, wildlife Management |

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