Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

All-purpose enzymes boost CRISPR’s powers

The gene-editing system could target a broad swathe of the genome with the help of versatile enzymes.
CRISPR–CAS9 gene-editing complex from Streptococcus pyogenes.

The Cas9 enzyme (red, artist’s impression) snips DNA (orange). Improved versions of Cas9 promise to expand the usefulness of the CRISPR–Cas9 genome-editing technique. Credit: Alamy

Newly developed enzymes allow the CRISPR–Cas9 genome-editing system to target a huge range of mutations in human cells — an advance that could lead to the development of CRISPR-based treatments for human disease.

Access options

Buy article

Get time limited or full article access on ReadCube.

$32.00

Buy

All prices are NET prices.

Nature 580, 10 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00903-x

References

Subjects

Nature Careers

Jobs

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing

Search

Advanced search

Quick links