Searching for the CRISPR Swiss-army Knife (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

Searching for the CRISPR Swiss-army Knife (1 of 2)

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epresentation of CRISPR protein Cpf1. The class 2 CRISPR Cas complexes, including Cas9 and Cpf1, have great versatility, since a single protein guided by a guide RNA is able to recognize and cut a specific sequence of the genome.

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Pablo Alcón / University of Copenhagen

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