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Friday, 09-05-2025 | 08:09
Steven Jacobsen, distinguished professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UCLA, collaborated with CRISPR-Cas9 co-inventor Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield at UC Berkeley. Jacobsen engineered the tobacco rattle virus to carry ISYmu1, a compact CRISPR-like enzyme, to target specific DNA sequences in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The genome changes can be passed on to future generations without the virus or any foreign DNA in the edited plant.



