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CRISPR: an emerging platform for gene editing

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Considering a potential platform candidate in the evolving realm of gene-editing technologies research.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 1
      January 2019
      109 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3301004
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