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bristolstreet · 3087 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Cell Therapy Untested in Humans Saves a Baby With Cancer
Better target specificity in the best case scenario, maybe, but given the improvements in simplicity I would've thought CRISPR/Cas9 (or, now, CRISPR/Cpf1) still has the bigger fanbase. The length of the recognition sequence creates insignificant nonspecificity, something on the order of 10^-7 chance of repeat events in the human genome, if my professor did the calculations right. They did get that Zuckerberg rockstar award too...