EditForce Inc. develops novel drugs, seeds (for agriculture) and useful substances through nucleic acids (DNA / RNA) manipulation technologies. UTEC has been involved in EditForce since its inception in 2015 when it was established by KISCO Ltd. and Takahiro Nakamura (nowProfessor at Kyushu University) in 2015. EditForce provides a proprietary alternative option to genome editing as well as a novel tool for versatile editing of RNA molecules on a genomic scale. This technology is called ‘transcriptome editing’ based on pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein engineering technologies that Dr. Nakamura invented. At EditForce, a large family of plant-specific PPR proteins related to plant immunity is researched in order to discover DNA/RNA recognition mechanisms of PPR proteins which then can be applied in the form of design/programming tools to the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries.
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