Scientists have known for years that bacteria have the ability to fight off invading viruses but considered their immune systems to be relatively primitive. However, a new discovery in recent years of CRISPRs, an acronym for "clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats," changed that perception.
Scientists have known for years that bacteria have the ability to fight off invading viruses but considered their immune systems to be relatively primitive. However, a new discovery in recent years of CRISPRs, an acronym for "clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats," changed that perception.
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