The availability of these Cas9 variants, coupled with high-throughput screening techniques, has dramatically expanded the CRISPR-Cas toolkit. This versatility empowers researchers to tailor CRISPR ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also recommends routine STI screening for sexually active individuals at high risk of STI infection, even if they have no signs or symptoms. Among ...

CRISPR–Cas, a bacterial defence system that ... insert the genes into a standard strain of laboratory bacteria and test whether they allow the microbes to resist phages that they couldn ...

C. auris is closely related to C. albicans, a common cause of candidiasis, including fungal infections like thrush and vaginal yeast infections. These infections tend to take hold in people with weak ...

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