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...Fuller CK, Cameron P, Fazzio TG, Zhu LJ, Wolfe SA, Sontheimer EJ (2018) NmeCas9 is an intrinsically high-fidelity.... Kim E, Koo T, Park SW, Kim D, Kim K, Cho H-Y, Song DW, Lee KJ, Jung MH, Kim S, Kim JH, Kim JH, Kim ...Topkar VV, Nguyen NT, Zheng Z, Gonzales APW, Li Z, Peterson RT, Yeh J-RJ, Aryee MJ, Joung JK (2015) Engineered...

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...P. C., Shmakov, S. A., Silva, C., Tolstoy, I., Johnson, D. B., Koonin, E. V., & Quatrini, R. (2021). Evolution...https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz1197 Samai, P., Pyenson, N., Jiang, W., Goldberg, G. W., Hatoum-Aslan, ... Hallmark, T., Keiser, D., Bondy-Denomy, J., & Jackson, R. N. (2021). Positioning diverse Type IV structures...

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