Using CRISPR to Destroy Cancer Cells
Original article written by Carmen Leitch A few days ago, researchers and Professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for their work developing the gene editor CRISPR/Cas9. Since it was created, the gene editor has been used in many ways…
Read More2nd CRISPR Experiment Day 1!
My school hosts an annual project for all high school students called NPCS, the New Pacific Century Scholars Program, where students are allowed to choose between a research project, a career exploration (originally was internship but changed to career exploration due to COVID),…
Read More2nd CRISPR Experiment Day 2!
Today, I streaked out the bacteria whilst making the LB Streptomycin agar plates. Hopefully I don’t accidentally screw on the lid on the glass bottle and cause an explosion when opening the glass bottle after microwaving again like yesterday..! [Update] Thankfully there weren’t…
Read More2nd CRISPR Experiment Day 3!
Before moving onto my processes today, I must address a major failure that may affect our results.. We had to re-microwave the frozen agar plates, which led to contamination on some of the plates. We actually only re-microwaved one plate and left the…
Read MoreKSCY: Korea Scholars’ Conference for Youth Competition (2021. 07. 19 ~ 30)
Okay.. This may sound a bit erratic and implausible but I actually attempted a submission into this quite *major* research competition held in South Korea, hosted by one of the top universities here: Yeonsei University. KSCY, an abbreviation for Korea Scholars’ Conference for…
Read MoreStanford Researchers Improve CRISPR to Transform into a Nanoscale Control Agent that Can Switch Genes On and Off
Recently, researchers at Stanford University attached biological nanobodies to the CRISPR tool to enhance the practicality of the technology. By using the fundamental concept of CRISPR’s process in repairing genes, the researchers realized they could use CRISPR to locate and replace certain genes.…
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