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MIT re­searchers re­veal DNA 'Paste' tech be­hind lat­est gene edit­ing start­up

MIT sci­en­tists have de­vel­oped a tool that they say can in­sert large gene se­quences where they want in the genome.

In a pa­per pub­lished Thurs­day in Na­ture Biotech­nol­o­gy, MIT fel­lows Omar Abu­dayyeh, Jonathan Gooten­berg and col­leagues de­tail a tech­nol­o­gy they call PASTE, which they say can po­ten­tial­ly be used to in­sert long strands of DNA and treat ge­net­ic dis­eases caused by many dif­fer­ent mu­ta­tions, such as cys­tic fi­bro­sis and Leber con­gen­i­tal amau­ro­sis, a rare eye dis­or­der that caus­es blind­ness.

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