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Article History
Received: 11 March 2025
Accepted: 26 March 2026
First Online: 6 May 2026
Competing interests
: BRAIN Biotech AG has filed patent applications that cover the GeCas12a2 nuclease sequence (WO 2022/017633) and its use for cell depletion (WO 2023/139096), with P.S., C.Z. and M.K. as inventors. The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Utah State University have filed provisional patent applications on Cas12a2 and its applications (WO 2022/253903A1), with O.D., R.N.J. and C.L.B. as inventors. C.L.B. is a co-founder and scientific advisor to Locus Biosciences, a co-founder and officer of Leopard Biosciences GmbH, and scientific advisor to Benson Hill. C.Z. is an employee of BRAIN Biotech. A.G., P.S., T.F., R.B., D.S. and R.M. are employees of Akribion Therapeutics GmbH. M.K. is a co-founder and co-CEO of Akribion Therapeutics GmbH. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.