One of the most commonly used genetic engineering techniques is called clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), named for the odd, repeating sequences that researchers found in bacterial DNA in 1987. Eventually, researchers discovered that these sequences are part of a bacterial immune system. More @Wikipedia
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