Dossier
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
Coverage of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats in the Nexus archive.
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CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is an immune system evolved in bacteria to defend against viral threats. It functions by snipping and storing fragments of viral DNA in the CRISPR region for future defense.