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The Challenge of Using CRISPR to Knock In Genes
CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing technology known for its user-friendliness, can knock genes in or out. Knocking out a gene involves inserting CRISPR-Cas9 into a cell using a guide RNA that targets the ...
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Randall Platt: Hijacking the CRISPR system to create ‘living diagnostics’
They grab RNAs, proportional to their abundance, and take a little snippet of them — about 40 nucleotides — that they integrate in a CRISPR array. The array is simply a DNA sequence of ...