Researchers harness novel RNA-targeting CRISPR system
A team of researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Institutes of Health, and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology has discovered and characterized two new types of RNA-targeting CRISPR systems, which utilize a new Cas enzyme, dubbed Cas13b.

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