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The discovery of the CRISPR-Cas system has led to a sea of change in the microbiological sciences. Since then laboratories all over the world have joined the race to understand and exploit CRISPR. The insights gained about this system led to applications in industry to protect bacterial species against their viral parasites. In addition, CRISPR-Cas has been turned into a versatile genome editing method that has the potential to treat human genetic diseases.
Find out more about CRISPR in this collection of articles by watching this video.
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