Gene Editing gets safer thanks to redesigned Cas9 protein

ScienceDaily
Mar 2, 2022, 4:06 pm130 pts
Scientists have redesigned a key component of a widely used CRISPR-based gene-editing tool, called Cas9, to be thousands of times less likely to target the wrong stretch of DNA while remaining just as efficient as the original version, making it potentially much safer.

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