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Updated: NgAgo gene-editing controversy escalates in peer-reviewed papers

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String of publications describes attempts — mostly unsuccessful — to use proposed CRISPR rival.

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    The story has been updated to include details of the most recent Nature Biotechnology report and the journal’s ‘expression of concern’, as well as fresh comments from Han Chunyu and Nature Biotechnology, which followed those publications.

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Cyranoski, D. Updated: NgAgo gene-editing controversy escalates in peer-reviewed papers. Nature 540, 20–21 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.21023

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