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Hannah Grunwald and Assistant Professor Kimberly Cooper

UC San Diego Researchers First to Use CRISPR/Cas9 to Control Genetic Inheritance in Mice

Technology offers powerful new genetic tools for human disease research in rodents

Biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed the world’s first CRISPR/Cas9-based approach to control genetic inheritance in a mammal.

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Npas4 recruits CCK basket cell synapses and enhances cannabinoid-sensitive inhibition in the mouse hippocampus
Synthetically engineered Medea gene drive system in the worldwide crop pest Drosophila suzukii
Honey Bee Inhibitory Signaling Is Tuned to Threat Severity and Can Act as a Colony Alarm Signal
Chromosome Translocation Inflates Bacillus Forespores and Impacts Cellular Morphology

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