Formación eficiente de una sola copia de cromosomas humanos artificiales

Craig W Gambogi1,2,3,4, Gabriel J Birchak1,2,3,5, Elie Mer1,2,3,4

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 21, 2024
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron un nuevo método para crear cromosomas artificiales humanos de una sola copia (HAC). Esta técnica ingeniera de manera eficiente los cromosomas en las células de mamíferos, superando las limitaciones anteriores en el ensamblaje y la multimerización del ADN.

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