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New CRISPR-based diagnostic test detects pathogens in blood without amplification • Mar. 15, 2025, 3:22 AM ET (Medical Xpress)
New CRISPR-enriched metagenomics method for detecting antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater • Mar. 5, 2025, 12:45 AM ET (News-Medical)

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Also Known As clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat

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Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
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American biochemist