Typewriter (VIDEO)

Allen Institute

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How can a mouse record its own family tree? DNA Typewriter uses a prime editor to write a short DNA "symbol" into one active site on an engineered stretch of DNA. Each insertion closes that site and opens the next one, so the symbols read left to right in the order they were written.

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Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology

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