When it comes toCrispr, the bacterial wünderenzyme that allows scientists to precisely edit DNA, no news is too small to stir up some drama. On Tuesday morning, doctors from Columbia, Stanford, and the University of Iowa published a one-page letterto the editor of Nature Methods—an obscure but high-profile journal—describing something downright peculiar.

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