This Week in Parasitism

TWiP 46: Malaria gets the (zinc) finger


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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson meet with Judith Straimer and Marcus Lee to discuss their method for site-specific genome editing in Plasmodium falciparumusing zinc finger nucleases.

Right-click to download TWiP #46 (46 MB .mp3, 64 minutes).

Links for this episode:
  • Judith Straimer and Marcus Lee
  • Genome editing in P. falciparum with zinc finger nucleases (Nature Methods)
  • Zinc finger nucleases (Sigma-Aldrich)
  • Gene-editing nucleases (Nature Methods)
  • Illustration by Andrew Lee
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