CRISPR-like gene-editing enzymes

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10 September 2021

Trove of CRISPR-like gene-cutting enzymes found in microbes

The search for a CRISPR enzyme’s ancestors has revealed more than one million potential genome-editing tools.

By exploring the evolutionary origins of an enzyme used in the CRISPR genome-editing system, researchers have unearthed more than one million other potential editors lurking in microbial genomes. The study, published on 9 September in Science1, foundhttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6842191646604451840