Enhancing Gene Targeting with Designed Zinc Finger Nucleases

Gene targeting—the process of gene replacement by homologous recombination—is a very useful but typically inefficient technique ( [1][1] ). A general method for improving the efficiency of gene targeting would be valuable in many circumstances, as would the extension of this genetic tool to a

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