Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CRISPR-Locate (Linking sequence to function of long noncoding RNAs with CRISPR.)

After the Human Genome Project, scientists were amazed to find lots of RNA molecules that don't make proteins. In addition to the 19,000 genes that code for proteins, our genetic material contains at least 20,000 long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) genes. Some recent estimates even...