Researchers discover new type of CRISPR gene scissors
Component of bacterial immune defense paralyzes infected cells and could advance molecular biology diagnostics
05-Jan-2023 -
It is an unexpected discovery by scientists at the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg in cooperation with Benson Hill, Inc. (Missouri) and Utah State University in the U.S.: They have found a nuclease, which they dubbed Cas12a2, that represents an entirely new type of CRISPR immune defense. Unlike any ...
CRISPR
diagnostics
nucleases