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Data Bytes: the evolving CRISPR landscape

Doudna’s Cas12j discovery adds to the growing CRISPR toolbox as gene editing companies branch out from Cas9

July 17, 2020 1:14 AM UTC

CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna is adding a Cas protein to the toolbox with features that could make it a good gene editing tool.

In a Science paper published on Thursday, the University of California Berkeley professor and colleagues described Cas12j as a small bacteriophage-derived CRISPR effector protein that uses a simple system to cut double- and single-stranded DNA. ...