Gene editing for the development of new treatments, and for studying disease as well as normal function in humans and other organisms, may advance more quickly with a new tool for cutting larger pieces of DNA out of a cell’s genome, according to a new study by UC San Francisco scientists.
Publication of the UCSF study on October 19, 2020, in the journal Nature Methods comes less than two weeks after two researchers who first used the genetic scissors known as CRISPR-Cas9 were selected to receive this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The research, by UC Berkeley biochemist and UC San Francisco professor Jennifer Doudna, also pp < 17. An Advance Publication. Abstract, DOI< 1510.1038/nmeth.2479
UCSF is a leading university devoted to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It includes top-ranked graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division with nationally renowned programs in basic, biomedical, translational and population sciences; and a preeminent biomedical research enterprise.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained on Monday why he believed Tel Aviv hid from his administration earlier this month the previously unpublished concerns about Iran's nuclear capabilities — to preserve the world's knowledge of the regime's alleged ignorance, as well as his own.
In addition, Netanyahu instructed his officials not to divulge their findings until he was sure the information would stick.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Sunday that Ms. Psaki had not heard back directly from the Israeli government concerning its meetings with senior intelligence officials in Washington, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Last fall, 53 board members, including three Israeli citizens, formally petitioned President Barack Obama's administration to declassify U.S. intelligence on Iran's nuclear program.
In January, U.S. officials released portions of a so-called Metro array quality assurance report, which said that Tehran was enriching uranium to a reasonable level of purity on its underground facilities, but that it was not trying to attain the same level of enrichment as U.S. concern was at the time.
But officials decided strenuously not to disclose to Israeli officials the underlying intelligence conclusion. The agency carried out the declassification review in accordance with his agency Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
"Since there's cooperation and information sharing between our intelligence agencies, we do things to ensure that in cases where there challenges we provide and share information as soon as we can," Ms. Psaki said.
Israel's Ynet news reported this week that its intelligence services had asked for the information on the Iranians in October but were told it was outside the incentive of explanation they sought.
Ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer. Photo: Getty Images
Mr Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. from 2009 to 2012, told Mr Netanyahu that "representing Mr. Netanyahu in the American capital
Publication of the UCSF study on October 19, 2020, in the journal Nature Methods comes less than two weeks after two researchers who first used the genetic scissors known as CRISPR-Cas9 were selected to receive this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The research, by UC Berkeley biochemist and UC San Francisco professor Jennifer Doudna, also pp < 17. An Advance Publication. Abstract, DOI< 1510.1038/nmeth.2479
UCSF is a leading university devoted to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It includes top-ranked graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division with nationally renowned programs in basic, biomedical, translational and population sciences; and a preeminent biomedical research enterprise.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained on Monday why he believed Tel Aviv hid from his administration earlier this month the previously unpublished concerns about Iran's nuclear capabilities — to preserve the world's knowledge of the regime's alleged ignorance, as well as his own.
In addition, Netanyahu instructed his officials not to divulge their findings until he was sure the information would stick.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Sunday that Ms. Psaki had not heard back directly from the Israeli government concerning its meetings with senior intelligence officials in Washington, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Last fall, 53 board members, including three Israeli citizens, formally petitioned President Barack Obama's administration to declassify U.S. intelligence on Iran's nuclear program.
In January, U.S. officials released portions of a so-called Metro array quality assurance report, which said that Tehran was enriching uranium to a reasonable level of purity on its underground facilities, but that it was not trying to attain the same level of enrichment as U.S. concern was at the time.
But officials decided strenuously not to disclose to Israeli officials the underlying intelligence conclusion. The agency carried out the declassification review in accordance with his agency Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
"Since there's cooperation and information sharing between our intelligence agencies, we do things to ensure that in cases where there challenges we provide and share information as soon as we can," Ms. Psaki said.
Israel's Ynet news reported this week that its intelligence services had asked for the information on the Iranians in October but were told it was outside the incentive of explanation they sought.
Ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer. Photo: Getty Images
Mr Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. from 2009 to 2012, told Mr Netanyahu that "representing Mr. Netanyahu in the American capital
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