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"People have known for a while that Cas9 causes an immune response ... do its job," added Friedrich. Many CRISPR-based therapies use nucleases derived from bacteria. About 80% of people have ...

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These patterns are the basis of a primitive immune system that bacteria use to ‘remember’ the DNA of viral invaders by incorporating the DNA sequence of the virus within the CRISPR patterns. The Cas9 ...