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CRISPR and Cas receive a common name
From From Bacterial Defence to Medicine: The CRISPR Gene-Editing Revolution
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Discovery
CRISPR and Cas receive a common name
A shared name connected repeat families with nearby CRISPR-associated genes.
Researchers proposed the name CRISPR for this family of regularly spaced repeats and identified nearby genes that became known as Cas, for CRISPR-associated. A common vocabulary did not explain what the system did, but it allowed observations from different microorganisms to be compared. That helped turn several disconnected findings into one research field.
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