RICE UNIVERSITY IMAGE: RICE UNIVERSITY BIOENGINEERS ARE USING DEACTIVATED CAS9 PROTEINS TO TARGET KEY SEGMENTS OF THE HUMAN GENOME AND SYNTHETICALLY TRIGGER THE TRANSCRIPTION OF HUMAN GENES. CREDIT: ILLUSTRATION BY SOFIA ESCOBAR/RICE UNIVERSITY HOUSTON – (July 18, 2022) – Rice University researchers have demonstrated that CRISPR-Cas9, increasingly famous as a gene-editing tool, can be employed in...