CRISPR-Cas12a: Functional overview and applications
Prokaryotes have developed an adaptive immune system called Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) to combat attacks by foreign mobile genetic elements (MGEs) such as plasmids and phages. In the past decade, the widely characterized CRISPR-Cas9 enzyme has been redesigned...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-02-01
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Series: | Biomedical Journal |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417019305050 |