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Re:HIV in cell culture can be completely eliminated using CR... by _heimdall on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @12:35AM (#39762891)
> If there's meaningful editing near an oncogene then that's going to be a deal breaker for a particular guide.

At this point do we know every gene that had the potential to cause cancer?

Re:HIV in cell culture can be completely eliminated using CR... by a_bonobo on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:07AM (#39763299)
We roughly know the space of possible mutations in the human genomes because we have so many sequenced genomes now: if we don't spot a mutation it's probably not good when it happens, survivorship bias.

The problem with CRISPR is that we cannot control where the off-target effects happen, we can currently only optimise the guiding RNA and the Cas enzyme to have as little off-target effects as possible (but not 0, yet). It would be cool to engineer guiding RNAs that bind in those high mutation-rate areas when they have off-target effects, stuff can mutate there and nothing will happen (probably).