History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution
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Blog Post
...year, scientists hijacked survival tactics of prokaryotes to deliver the technological biological blockbuster...demands of the biotech field, let's look at how prokaryotes originally utilized CRISPR/Cas as a powerful ...experiments exposed S. thermophilus to predatory phages to test if the exogenous DNA would be incorporated into ...these studies led scientists to hypothesize that prokaryotes developed an adaptive immune system that utilized...an interesting "arms race" between phages and prokaryotes; the ultimate victor will be the species who ...