title: Bacteria herald a new era of gene editing.
abstract: The demonstration that nucleases guided by bacterial RNA can disrupt human genes represents a landmark in the rapidly developing field of genome engineering.
authors: is at the  Genome Center and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine ,  University of California, Davis ,  United States djsegal@ucdavis.edu.
authors: David J
authors: DJ
authors: Segal
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D017393:RNA Editing
keywords: Cas9; Human; endonuclease; genome editing
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