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Biological Chemistry
News
January 22, 2024
Ph.D. student Mason Myers of the Zhang lab is a lead author of a research article in Molecular Cell
Exploiting activation and inactivation mechanisms in type I-C CRISPR-Cas3 for genome-editing applications