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MCB Associate Professor Lin He and her team "developed a quicker and more efficient method to alter the genes of mice with CRISPR-Cas9, simplifying a procedure growing in popularity because of the ease of using the new gene-editing tool."
Image: Electroporation jolts embryos with electricity to open holes that allow the CRISPR-Cas9 molecule (upper right) to enter and edit the DNA. Andrew Modzelewski, Lin He image.