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  • 400189PublicAssets/3719This illustration shows, in simplified terms, how the CRISPR-Cas9 system can be used as a gene-editing tool. The illustration includes a cartoon with four frames and a fifth frame with potential applications. For an explanation and overview of the CRISPR-Cas9 system, see the NIGMS Biomedical Beat blog entry at <a href="https://biobeat.nigms.nih.gov/2014/09/field-focus-precision-gene-editing-with-crispr/">Field Focus: Precision Gene Editing with CRISPR</a>&nbsp;and the iBiology video at <a href="http://www.ibiology.org/ibiomagazine/jennifer-doudna-genome-engineering-with-crispr-cas9-birth-of-a-breakthrough-technology.html">http://www.ibiology.org/ibiomagazine/jennifer-doudna-genome-engineering-with-crispr-cas9-birth-of-a-breakthrough-technology.html</a>.National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of HealthIllustration

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    This illustration shows, in simplified terms, how the CRISPR-Cas9 system can be used as a gene-editing tool. The illustration includes a cartoon with four frames and a fifth frame with potential applications. For an explanation and overview of the CRISPR-Cas9 system, see the NIGMS Biomedical Beat blog entry at Field Focus: Precision Gene Editing with CRISPR and the iBiology video at http://www.ibiology.org/ibiomagazine/jennifer-doudna-genome-engineering-with-crispr-cas9-birth-of-a-breakthrough-technology.html.

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