CRSPR-CVas9 assignment

Fist year biology assignment. It isn't really about the topic itself but about:

• experience with literature search
• Scientific writing and referencing
• Must include 3 references to peer reviewed journals
• Technically correct scientific terminology

The topic is Cas-9, I have chosen agriculture. The assignment needs to provide a background to gene editing, outline of Cas-9, outline of beneficial work, then ethical considerations.

I can post the whole assignment if needed. For now my challenge is fine tuning database search between information overload to nothing when I want specifics. I'm doing fine getting an overview of the topic so far, but a refined search is failing me. Those specifics (at the moment) are trying to find seminal journal articles for:

1. Repeat palindromes found in halophiles - by Francisco Majica

2. Subsequent purpose discovered (viral defence) by Horvarth.

If I can nail this, then I'm on to Talen, ZFN, embryonic stem cells and pluripotent ES (my term not scientific)

Cheers

Dru