Gladstone scientist Karen Zhang (IMAGE)

Gladstone Institutes

Gladstone scientist Karen Zhang

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Gladstone scientists, including Karen Zhang, uncovered a counterintuitive class of bacterial defense systems, known as type VI retrons, that can be adapted to engineer more efficient gene editing tools.

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Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes

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