A team of marine biologists led by Scripps Oceanography's Amro Hamdoun (@Hamdounlab) has created lines of sea urchins — the marine equivalent of lab rats — that can be used as genetic models using the gene editing technology known as #CRISPR.
Read more: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/genetics-…
Read more: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/genetics-…
Described in a new paper out today in @Dev_journal, the genetic makeup of the #SeaUrchins is fully mapped and can be edited to study human disease genes. The creation of these new research model organisms will accelerate the pace of marine #biomedical research.
Having this new “genetically enabled” sea urchin could dramatically enhance the efficiency, reproducibility, and utility of studies of the developmental origins of diseases.
“Sea urchins have long been a favorite model organism for marine biologists, but they have been bottlenecked by not having stable genetics. This work breaks that final barrier,” said Hamdoun.
Learn more about this #genetics breakthrough in sea urchins ⬇️ scripps.ucsd.edu/news/genetics-…
Learn more about this #genetics breakthrough in sea urchins ⬇️ scripps.ucsd.edu/news/genetics-…
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