Desktop Genetics, Imperial College London Receive $430K Grant to Build CRISPR Software

Feb 22, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Genome editing software company Desktop Genetics and Imperial College London's cancer epigenetics unit have received a £300,000 ($430,000) grant from Innovate UK, which they will use to develop software tools that selectively design CRISPR/Cas9 targets against cancer cell lines that are characterized at the epigenetic level.

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