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Emily P. Bentley

Emily P. Bentley is a Blog Writer at Addgene. She earned her PhD in molecular biology and biophysics from Scripps Research, and she loves supporting open science and learning about new research.

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CRISPR

A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

Emily P. Bentley June 4, 2024

Have you ever designed a CRISPR guide RNA and wondered why it is limited to only 20 bases, or why it’s so important to choose a target sequence with a nearby protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM)? Cas9 is becoming an ever more ubiquitous tool for genome engineering, and studying its ...
Cartoon summary of Cas9 activity.

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