Brave New Genome
Fifty years ago, microbiologists sparked the recombinant-DNA revolution with the discovery that bacteria have innate immune systems based on restriction enzymes. These enzymes bind and cut invading viral genomes at specific short sequences, and scientists rapidly repurposed them to cut and paste DNA...
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Massachusetts Medical Society
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106527 |