Sentences with phrase «bacterial genes mutate»
Sometimes, by chance, bacterial genes mutate during reproduction, subtly altering the nature of the bug.
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The team led by biomedical engineering professor Charles A. Gersbach used a mouse model suffering from a mutated exon of the dystrophin gene, programming CRISPR / CAS9 — a bacterial - protein derived process of cutting and pasting DNA portions — to snip out the defective exon.