A split-Cas9 architecture for inducible genome editing and transcription modulation
Bernd Zetsche1, Sara E Volz2, Feng Zhang2
11] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [3] Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA. [4] Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA. [5] Department of Developmental Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Bonn Medical School, Bonn, Germany.
Nature Biotechnology
|February 3, 2015
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