Sentences with phrase «called zinc finger nucleases»

Working with proteins called zinc finger nucleases and TALENs, Zhang attempted to edit the genomes of mammalian cells with a view to engineering them.

The trial is using a form of DNA scissors called zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs).

Last year, researchers targeted and destroyed this gene in the T - cells of 12 people with HIV using custom - made proteins called zinc finger nucleases.

They have used a different technique, called zinc finger nucleases, to disrupt a gene on T cells that HIV uses to enter the cells.

Its competitors — designer proteins called zinc finger nucleases and TALENs — also precisely alter chosen DNA sequences, and several companies are already exploiting them for therapeutic purposes in clinical trials.

Talk of curing AIDS made front - page news last year, in part due to an astonishing new gene - editing technology: lab - engineered proteins called zinc finger nucleases.

In clinical trials already underway, for example, researchers have used an older gene - editing technique, enzymes call zinc finger nucleases, in immune cells to deactivate the gene for CCR5, a surface protein that HIV latches onto in order to infect cells.

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Ultimately, this week's discourse will lead to a consensus statement providing some guidance on how to approach using this and older gene editing technologies such as zinc finger nucleases and enzymes called transcription activator - like effector nucleases, or TALENs.

In 2009, researchers at Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Sangamo BioSciences in Richmond, California, announced that they had used enzymes called zinc - finger nucleases to insert a gene for herbicide resistance at a specific site in the maize genome (V. K. Shukla et al..