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RNA-guided nucleases provide a strategy for killing specific bacterial species in complex populations.

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Figure 1: Directed cleavage and loss of targeted DNA.

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Silver, L. Antibacterials for any target. Nat Biotechnol 32, 1102–1104 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3060

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