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Herpes cure with gene editing makes progress in laboratory studies (www.fredhutch.org)
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[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Meganucleases can work in quite a few ways. Typically speaking cleaving describes a process in which a section of genome is removed (cutting in two places), but not always. The article doesn't go into too much detail of the specifics of the meganucleases used in this study, but the literature they cite might.