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The doors CRISPR libraries have and will open in phenotypic drug screening 

Drug Discovery World

In an effort to defend themselves against viral infection, bacterial cells capture and copy DNA fragments of bacteriophages into their genome. In the event of an attack from similar bacteriophages, the bacteria can recognise these segments and use this to discern and cleave the viral DNA, which disrupts the viral gene function.

Genome 52