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Francisco J. M. Mojica, César Díez Villaseñor

• Native CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity systems prevent plasmid conjugation and virus-mediated gene transfer. Zhang et al. have recently reported in Molecular Cell that natural transformation is also limited by a simple endogenous CRISPR system, which would make an optimal candidate tool for functional applications such as genome editing.