Infecting Gut Microbes with CRISPR-loaded Virus Demonstrates Potential for Microbiome Gene Editing
In a first, UCSF reserachers successfully used the DNA-editing system CRISPR to alter the genomes of bacteria living in the guts of mammals, which may advance our understanding of the microbiome and pave the way for treating gut-related disease.
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