Foreign media: Chinese scientists have developed a new gene editing tool called the Programmable Chromosome Engineering (PCE) system, which can precisely manipulate up to millions of base pairs, solving a long-standing problem that has troubled biologists.
This technology is 3.5 times more efficient than traditional Cre-Lox enzyme editing, and does not leave "scars", and also reduces the possibility of reversal of editing.
Experts believe that this innovation will lay the foundation for genetic engineering in the fields of biomedical and agriculture, and is expected to open up new avenues in crop trait improvement and the treatment of genetic diseases, and may even replace the existing Cre-Lox system, greatly improving research efficiency.
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