{"id":1541,"date":"2016-12-15T15:38:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2018-05-10T17:55:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:55:02","slug":"msc-students-trained-in-genome-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/12\/15\/msc-students-trained-in-genome-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"MSc students trained in genome editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching modern methods is a cornerstone underpinning postgraduate education.\u00a0Our taught MSc degrees feature a research skills module in which students undertake an extended mini-project, exposing them to the most up-to-date methodology in the biological sciences. Recently, our first students completed a newly designed practical on genome editing, a set of emerging techniques currently revolutionising medicine, biotechnology and life sciences research.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1542\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2016\/12\/CRISPR-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"crispr\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2016\/12\/CRISPR-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2016\/12\/CRISPR.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>With the support and guidance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/von_der_haar.html\">Dr. Tobias von der Haar<\/a>,\u00a0our MSc students utilised approaches borrowed from a bacterial immune system (CRISPR) to engineer away a metabolic defect in a baker\u2019s yeast strain. The deficiency, an inability to make an essential nutrient accompanied by red colony colour, is the yeast equivalent of inherited human metabolic disorders like Tay-Sachs and other diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The diverse applications of CRISPR\u00a0have only\u00a0emerged in the last\u00a0five years but it is already having a profound influence on biological research. We are delighted that our postgraduate students have been able to benefit from this cutting-edge training, successfully generating functionally-modified\u00a0yeast strains, while also exploring the ethics surrounding its use in biology.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Biosciences offers MSc programmes in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Cancer Biology, Drug Design, Infectious Diseases and Reproductive Medicine. For more information, see\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\">School\u00a0of Biosciences\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/12\/15\/msc-students-trained-in-genome-editing\/&amp;t=MSc students trained in genome editing' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=MSc students trained in genome editing%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/12\/15\/msc-students-trained-in-genome-editing\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/12\/15\/msc-students-trained-in-genome-editing\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/12\/15\/msc-students-trained-in-genome-editing\/&amp;title=MSc students trained in genome editing' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/12\/15\/msc-students-trained-in-genome-editing\/&amp;title=MSc students trained in genome editing' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching modern methods is a cornerstone underpinning postgraduate education.\u00a0Our taught MSc degrees feature a research skills module in which students undertake an extended mini-project, exposing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/12\/15\/msc-students-trained-in-genome-editing\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80390,124,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}