Assistant Professor @PrincetonMolBio developing Cas13-based biotechnologies for studying RNA.
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Detecting viruses is important, especially these days. For the past five years, I have worked to develop CRISPR-based technologies to detect viruses, viral variants, and other pathogens. Last month, I gave a talk at TEDxBoston describing the work: ted.com/talks/cameron_myhrvo…
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1/ Over the past 50 years, we have learned much about how transcription factors and other DNA-binding proteins search for their targets, but we know much less about how sequence-specific RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) search for their targets.
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25/ A huge thank you to all the co-authors involved (Ofer, Ben (@blarsen322), Emily, and AJ), and to funding from NIH, the Princeton Catalysis Initiative, and the Branco Weiss Fellowship (to Ofer). Working with such talented people is one of the best parts of my job!
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26/ If you made it this far, thanks for reading - we hope you like our paper! For other related work of ours, see myhrvoldlab.com.
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