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Casting aside CRISPR scissors and making a point with base editors

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Dr Jennifer Harbottle, senior scientist in the R&D Base Editing team of PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery business, looks at progress made in the realms of biotechnology and next-generation diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics, including the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in developing and refining cell therapies.

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CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases

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Nucleic acid-based diagnostics, which typically require PCR reagents and laboratory equipment, are crucial for identifying, treating, and preventing common infectious diseases. CRISPR diagnostics have successfully detected various pathogens, including RNA viruses (eg. Herpesviridae, Polyomaviridae, and Papillomaviridae), bacteria (e.g.,

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Reflecting on PEGS Europe 2023 

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coli expression systems and is using high-throughput expression pipelines to screen constructs for optimal expression to generate protein and cellular reagents. To demonstrate the utility of the company’s SYNTAX system in gene assembly, the 1.7 kb Influenza A hemagglutinin gene was used as a model system.