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

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However, for virologists like Lori Frappier, PhD, professor in the department of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto, the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 was less of a surprise and more of an inevitability. The system can be used to precisely edit out portions of DNA flanked by CRISPR sequences.