CRISPR

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Microbial warfare brought us CRISPR. What big breakthroughs could be next? • Apr. 8, 2025, 10:32 PM ET (Nature)

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Also Known As	clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat

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gene editing

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Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna

American biochemist