{"id":7831,"date":"2022-11-13T02:59:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T21:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:39:34","slug":"crispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/crispr\/","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About CRISPR:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>CRISPR is short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which is a reference to the clustered and repetitive sequences of DNA found in bacteria, whose natural mechanism to fight some viral diseases is replicated in this gene-editing tool.<\/li>\n<li>Its mechanism is often compared to the \u2018cut-copy-paste\u2019, or \u2018find-replace\u2019 functionalities in common computer programmes.<\/li>\n<li>A bad stretch in the DNA sequence, which is the cause of disease or disorder, is located, cut, and removed \u2014 and then replaced with a \u2018correct\u2019 sequence.<\/li>\n<li>And the tools used to achieve this are not mechanical, but biochemical \u2014 specific protein and RNA molecules.<\/li>\n<li>The technology replicates a natural defence mechanism in some bacteria that uses a similar method to protect itself from virus attacks.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR is a family of DNA sequences found in genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria &#038; archaea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}