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CRISPR-Cas12j is a recently identified family of miniature RNA-guided endonucleases from phages. Arturo Carabias (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new Nature Communications paper on the structure of CRISPR-Cas12j3. This is the first structural insight into this new nuclease family, and shows why Cas12j unleashes unspecific ssDNA degradation after activation.