Last week, our group leader Prof. Stefan Stricker gave a lay #lecture on the method “ #CRISPR ".

It continues to draw significant #public interest. A highlight was the #dCas9 topic, opening up new perspectives for treating #genetic and #degenerative #diseases.

#sciencecommunication #Wisskomm

Cell-type- and locus-specific epigenetic editing of memory expression - Nature Genetics CRISPR-based epigenetic editing is used in a cell-type-specific, locus-restricted and temporally controllable manner in the adult mouse brain to modulate memory expression.

🚨🧬 New in Nat Genetics: “Cell-type- and locus-specific epigenetic editing of memory expression”.

Read below 👇

DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Neuroscience #Epigenetics #Memory #BrainResearch #CRISPR #dCas9 #Science #Genomics

Here you can see a cryoEM structure of Cas9d from Deltaproteobacteria in complex to its gRNA and a target dsDNA (PDB code: 8W2Z)

Rendering by Francisco J. Enguita made with #ProteinImager

3dproteinimaging.com/protein-imag...

#SciArt #molecularart #crispr #dcas9 #dna #cryoem