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Powerful CRISPR system inserts whole gene into human DNA

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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Elie Dolgin is a science journalist in Somerville, Massachusetts. You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You have full access to this article via Brown University Library. A system that can add an entire gene to the genome uses enzymes called transposases (yellow, blue, purple; artist’s impression) to alter DNA (red, green). Credit: Laguna Design/Science Photo Library An innovative genome-editing tool promises to do what original CRISPR systems have struggled to achieve: insert entire genes, precisely and efficiently, into human DNA.

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