cas9 can be set to target arbitrary DNA sequences, it is part of a bacterial virus defence mechanism. If you have your cas9, in a cell, and then a virus tries to infect it, the viral genome will get chopped up. I don’t think viral DNA works when chopped up, especially as the researchers can cut somewhere that will do lots of damage, like in the middle of a gene that makes a key protein.
This is assuming that you can get cas9 into cells.
“Does damage to DNA” is not a feature that distinguishes CAS9 from bleach. Also, coronavirus does not contain DNA; it’s an RNA virus. You’re completely on the wrong track.
cas9 can be set to target arbitrary DNA sequences, it is part of a bacterial virus defence mechanism. If you have your cas9, in a cell, and then a virus tries to infect it, the viral genome will get chopped up. I don’t think viral DNA works when chopped up, especially as the researchers can cut somewhere that will do lots of damage, like in the middle of a gene that makes a key protein.
This is assuming that you can get cas9 into cells.
“Does damage to DNA” is not a feature that distinguishes CAS9 from bleach. Also, coronavirus does not contain DNA; it’s an RNA virus. You’re completely on the wrong track.
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-crispr-cas9-rna.html
Cas 9 cuts rna too.