The kill-switch for CRISPR that could make gene-editing safer

Elie Dolgin • January 15, 2020

How anti-CRISPR proteins and other molecules could bolster biosecurity and improve medical treatments.

It started out as “sort of a stupid thing to do”, recalls Joe Bondy-Denomy, a microbiologist at the University of California, San Francisco.


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