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CRISPR seen in action
![CRISPR systems are used by microbes to fight off attacks, such as from the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bound to an invading phage DNA](http://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-017-04378-1/d41586-017-04378-1_15107606.jpg)
CRISPR systems are used by microbes to fight off attacks, such as from the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bound to an invading phage DNA (shown in orange here). V. Falconieri/Subramaniam lab/NCI/NIH
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Nature 550, 161 (2017)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-04378-1