Using X-ray crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy, Twelve Bio’s University of Copenhagen founders showed that Cas12a recognizes DNA target sequences with exquisite specificity ...

Postdoctoral Researcher at the ONJCRI and WEHI Dr. Eddie La Marca, who is a co-lead author on the paper published in Nature ...

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A recent study published in Nature Communications explored how the CRISPR-Cas12a system, combined with newly designed compact CRISPR libraries, can identify genes crucial to cancer development.