Nobel Prize 2020 in Chemistry honors CRISPR: a tool for rewriting the code of life.

Pflugers Arch

Department of Medicine, Renal Division, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Published: January 2021

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