Megaphages harbor mini-Cas proteins ideal for gene editing

Friday, July 17, 2020 - 03:00 in Biology & Nature

The DNA-cutting proteins central to CRISPR-Cas9 and related gene-editing tools originally came from bacteria, but a newfound variety of Cas proteins apparently evolved in viruses that infect bacteria.

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