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...CRISPR use grows across the life sciences and to establish standardized validation techniques for academia...starting point for most researchers as it provides a list of putative off-target sites that they can later...limited to off-target sites of <4 bp. The off-target list is also generally weighted by the position of the...silico prediction to create a more comprehensive list of off-target editing events. Two of the most common.... Outside of the lab, he works as a freelance journalist and science writer with a focus on the ways science...

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