Nano Research & Applications

Editorial Note on Bacterial nanotechnology

As with any scientific discovery, the bacterial system of CRISPR-Cas9 is the product of the joint feat of multiple researchers spanning nearly 30 years of study. These attempts have shown that CRISPR-Cas9 is a general immune system used by bacteria to combat a viral attack. After being invaded, bacteria insert fragments of viral DNA into their genomes, generating a recollection of the event that causes successive invasions of the CRISPR-Cas9 machinery. The molecular mechanism of how the device operated remained elusive for a long time, however.

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