Silkworms made immune to disease

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3171, 2018, pág. 15
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Silkworms can now fight off a lethal virus after being given an immune system found in many bacteria. The same approach could protect other animals and plants from viral diseases. Zhanqi Dongat the State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology at Southwest University in Chongqing, China, and his colleagues gave silkworms the genes for the CRISPR protein Cas9, plus guide RNAs targeting BmNPV sequences. They then exposed silkworms to the virus. The genetically modified silkworms only succumbed when given a dose 1000 times greater than that which killed ordinary silkworms.