Pre Med Club

The HSIP program that I attended was also very valuable. The program gave me an unusual and broad exposure to the enormity and the diversity within medicine that I had not appreciated beforehand. It presented me each week with doctors from different specialties, their unique perspectives, and expertise, which really showed me what different careers […]

Back in November 2023, when I was researching various summer programs, I came across the Summer at Hopkins program and I was immediately drawn to it.  Johns Hopkins had always been one of my dream schools, and the Summer at Hopkins program presented an exciting chance to immerse myself in the academic environment of one

The paper introduces CRISPR-Cas systems as small RNA-based defense systems that execute adaptive and heritable immunity against viruses, plasmids, and other mobile genetic elements in archaea and bacteria. The system utilizes CAS proteins, associated with the loci of the CRISPRs in recognizing and destroying the invasive nucleic acids. The components that supply this immunity mediated

Introduction The CRISPR-Cas9 system, which can be programmed to target specific genomic loci (position), offers a powerful tool for gene editing and functional genomics. This study demonstrates developing and applying a genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout (GeCKO) library for high-throughput screening (the use of automated equipment to rapidly test thousands to millions of samples for biological activity

Overview of CRISPR CRISPR is a technology that enables researchers to edit parts of a genome. It works via the enzyme Cas9 and a guide RNA strand. Cas9 acts as a pair of ‘molecular scissors’ that can cut the two strands of DNA at a specific location. Guided RNA is designed to find and bind