{"id":4684,"date":"2016-03-17T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:14:10","slug":"tracking-rna-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/tracking-rna-in-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking RNA in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4685\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/110881_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4685\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4685\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/110881_web-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"This image shows a cell carrying an RNA-targeted Cas9 system. (Image credit: David Nelles of the University of California, San Diego) \" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image shows a cell carrying an RNA-targeted Cas9 system. (Image credit: David Nelles of the University of California, San Diego)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By modifying the CRISPR-Cas9 system, typically used for genetic editing, researchers are able to visually track the movement of RNA in living cells. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers believe this could be used to study disease-related RNA processes. Many diseases are related to errors in RNA and RNA transcription, such as different cancers and autism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the future the researchers believe their work can support therapeutic approaches to correct disease-causing RNA behaviors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2016.02.054\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Cell\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March 17<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Gene W. Yeo, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By modifying the CRISPR-Cas9 system, typically used for genetic editing, researchers are able to visually track the movement of RNA in living cells. The researchers believe this could be used to study disease-related RNA processes. Many diseases are related to errors in RNA and RNA transcription, such as different cancers and autism. In the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2520,1274,909,51,2150,1011],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-crispr","tag-dna","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-rna","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1dy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}