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CRISPR Accuracy Depends on Limiting Cas9 Dosage

CRISPR-Cas9 is remarkably accurate at making precise edits even in very large genomes when used sophisticatedly—keeping Cas9 in limited amounts and not present too long—so that off-target edits, while findable, require hard searching to detect.

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Jennifer Doudna

Evidence Quote

it's it's actually remarkably uh accurate at at uh generating those kinds of edits. It's possible to find uh off-targets, but it's uh you have to look pretty hard

Source

106 - Humanity 2.0Making Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:51:37 AM

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