Genome editing technology: CRISPR-Cas9

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About Course

The CRISPR: Gene-Editing Applications online course provides an overview of the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) gene-editing technology and its potential applications in a variety of industries.

This course will teach you about the basic principles of gene editing as well as how CRISPR-Cas9 works as a gene-editing technology. Throughout the eight weeks, you’ll learn about the major applications of CRISPR in the healthcare, agricultural, food, and energy industries.

You’ll get a deeper knowledge of the disruptive potential of biotech discoveries across numerous industries, as well as the capacity to explain your company’s biotech innovations to decision-makers.

 

What Will You Learn?

  • A true understanding of how CRISPR-Cas9 works
  • What's new in CRISPR: functions, classes, applications, etc.
  • Practice your new skills with designing sgRNA and donor DNA
  • Organize and structure your skills using many online and stand-alone applications
  • Get friendly and fast support in the course Q&A

Course Content

Fundamental concepts in CRISPR technology

Discovery, history and classification

CRISPR-Cas9 applications

CRISPR organization and structure

Cas9 variants and their application

gRNA design, cloning and delivery

Viral and non-viral delivery

CRISPR-Cas9 knockouts and knockins

HDR-mediated knockin in practice: donor DNA design