However, in March 2017, in an article published in eLife, researchers at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Stony Brook University reported that they had used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to delete MELK in 13 different human cancer cell lines of various tissue origins, and that they had observed in no significant effects on proliferation (Lin et al., 2017). The gene discussed is MELK; the disease is cancer.