Sentence examples for molecular scissors from inspiring English sources

Gene editing co-opts this defence to produce what has been called "molecular scissors".

Crispr can be thought of as a pair of molecular scissors guided by a satnav.

The most common technique, called Crispr-cas9, works like a pair of molecular scissors.

It coopts the natural immune defences of bacteria to create what is often described as "molecular scissors".

Then Cas9 slices through the strands of DNA, like a pair of molecular scissors.

They can be thought of as "molecular scissors," cutting the DNA at specific target sequences.

Because of the simplicity of the DNA recognition code and their modular assembly, TALENs can act as customizable molecular DNA scissors inducing double-strand breaks (DSBs) at given genomic location.

To take advantage of this, a team led by Mike Holmes, a molecular biologist at Sangamo Biosciences in Richmond, California, designed a pair of DNA "scissors".

"The scissors".

Supply scissors".

(Scissors work).