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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

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Charpentier demonstrated that the CRISPR/Cas system functions to provide adaptive immunity against foreign DNA in prokaryotes such as bacteria and archaea. The system can be used to precisely edit out portions of DNA flanked by CRISPR sequences. The system can be used to precisely edit out portions of DNA flanked by CRISPR sequences.