Press Zhanar Abil, postdoc at Bionanoscience TU Delft, studies the origins of life Zhanar Abil at the Bionanoscience lab at TU Delft Genome-editing proteins ride a DNA zip line Huimin Zhao, Charles Schroeder, Luke Cuculis, Zhanar Abil. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer. Genome-editing proteins seek and find with a slide and a hop A single-molecule imaging technique let the researchers observe how individual TALE proteins interacted with a strand of DNA.Graphic by Luke Cuculis Build-a-Cell seminar Zhanar Abil: Self-Regeneration and In Vitro Evolution Toward Artificial Life