Helmholtz Institute Würzburg<p><a href="https://helmholtz.social/tags/CRISPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CRISPR</span></a> arrays are a compact way for nature to encode <a href="https://helmholtz.social/tags/gRNAs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gRNAs</span></a>, but their ability to acquire new spacers keeps them longer than necessary for CRISPR technologies. <a href="https://helmholtz.social/tags/HIRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HIRI</span></a>'s Beisel lab now shows that CRISPR-Cas9 arrays can be shortened without compromising: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2023.2247247" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2023.</span><span class="invisible">2247247</span></a></p>