“…The genomes of herpesviruses are double-stranded DNA that replicate in the nucleus and are thus targetable by CRISPR/Cas9. Indeed, CRISPR-based targeting of herpesviruses has been explored as a way to suppress infection (Wang and Quake, 2014; Roehm et al , 2016; van Diemen et al , 2016; Karpov et al , 2019; Tso, West and Wood, 2019; Walter and Verdin, 2020). CRISPR has also been used to make functional insertions and knockouts on the viral genome (Suenaga et al , 2014; Yuen et al , 2015; BeltCappellino et al , 2019) or to perform pooled functional screens (Hein and Weissman, 2019; Gabaev et al , 2020) in much the same way as on the mammalian genome.…”