Volume 23, No 1, Jan 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 23 Issue 1, January 2013: 15-17

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

The double-edged sword of CRISPR-Cas systems

Manuela Villion and Sylvain Moineau

Département de Biochimie, de Microbiologie et de Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Groupe de Recherche en Écologie Buccale, Faculté de Médecine Dentaire, Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses, Université Laval, Québec City, Quebec G1V 0A6, Canada Correspondence: Sylvain Moineau(Sylvain.Moineau@bcm.ulaval.ca)

A recent paper gives the details on how specific small RNAs can program a protein to cleave an undesired piece of DNA and to provide immunity to a microbial cell.

Cell Research (2013) 23:15-17. doi:10.1038/cr.2012.124; published online 4 September 2012

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