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CRISPR in clinical oncology: translational advances from molecular diagnostics to therapeutics.

Jul 2026 · Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology · 1 citation · 216 references
Medicine

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How CRISPR-enabled functional genomics approaches can reveal unexpected cancer dependencies and resistance mechanisms is outlined, and emerging applications of CRISPR-based diagnostics in oncology that convert precise nucleic acid sequence recognition into rapid mutation detection are discussed.

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