The new technology, called ZFDesign, is based on data generated by the screen of nearly 50 billion possible zinc finger-DNA interactions. According to the researchers, zinc finger editing could be a safer alternative to CRISPR gene editing.
The research team plans to make the model precise so that it can build more zinc-finger groupings, according to a Jan. 26 NYU Langone news release.
The study was funded through National Institutes of Health and Canadian Institutes of Health grants.
