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Cas9 in action: no more known unknowns?

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Useful new methods are being introduced to experimentally determine the genome-wide consequences of Cas9-based editing.

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Figure 1: Naked genomic DNA is treated with a purified nuclease (turquoise) targeted to a specific genomic region.

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