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TWiP 46: Malaria gets the (zinc) finger

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 falciparum using 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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