PreMiEr Researcher Rodolphe Barrangou Quoted on Breakthrough Gene-Editing Approach
PreMiEr researcher Rodolphe Barrangou of NC State weighs in on a breakthrough gene-editing approach published in Nature that could one day make treatments for rare genetic diseases faster, cheaper, and more widely accessible.
A new gene-editing strategy published in the journal Nature may one day help tens of millions of people with rare genetic diseases. Developed by researchers at the Broad Institute and Harvard, the approach focuses on nonsense mutations, which create a premature stop signal in a gene that prevents a full protein from being made. Rather than correcting each mutation individually, the team engineered a special molecule called a suppressor tRNA that helps cells read past the unwanted stop signal. PreMiEr researcher and NC State genomic-editing expert Rodolphe Barrangou commented on the findings, saying the method has “tremendous tangible potential for scalability” and could move generalized gene editing for diseases ahead of customized individual treatments, though he noted years of further testing are still needed.
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