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Expanding CRISPR's Potential Since its discovery, CRISPR (“Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats”), which ...

In contrast to Cas9, Cas12a can delete multiple genes at the same time with extremely high efficiency." The researchers also ...

BV3L6 Cas12a (Cpf1), called Cas12a Ultra. The new mutant enzyme has enhanced editing activity, reaching or exceeding the performance of Cas9. The new Cas12a Ultra also retains activity across a wider ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have ... The new tool, which is called CRISPR-Cas12a, can help researchers simultaneously assess the impact ...

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing exploits the CRISPR-Cas ... the efficiency of gene activation and adenine base editing. CRISPR-Cas12a is a programmable endonuclease used for genetic engineering.

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have ... The new tool, which is called CRISPR-Cas12a, can help researchers simultaneously assess the impact ...