{"id":144320,"date":"2026-01-16T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144320"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:48:22","slug":"chinas-7000-year-old-sunmao-woodwork-leads-to-worlds-most-efficient-dna-editing-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144320","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s 7,000-year-old sunmao woodwork leads to world\u2019s most efficient DNA editing tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHow to beat the United States in gene editing? A research team from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences had struggled with this question for three years, with no results.<br \/>\nThen they decided to draw inspiration from an ancient woodwork tradition and cut DNA like wood. It led to a gene-editing tool with unprecedented efficiency.<br \/>\nIn the Chinese mortise-and-tenon joint technique known as sunmao, no nails or glue are used. Instead, a protruding \u201ctenon\u201d on one piece fits securely into&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3339967\/chinas-7000-year-old-sunmao-woodwork-leads-worlds-most-efficient-dna-editing-tool?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHow to beat the United States in gene editing? A research team from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences had struggled with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}