What is CRISPR & How Could It Edit Your DNA?
Gene-editing tool CRISPR is everywhere in the news, but what is it and could it eliminate disease? Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ▻▻▻▻ http://bit.ly/1myXbFG Should We...
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CRISPR could be responsible for a new era of genetically perfected plants, animals, and even humans…but what the heck is it? Hello imperfect humans, Trace here for DNews. A few years ago, something called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats or CRISPR burst onto scene. It worked so well scientists began issuing ethical statements about its use. CRISPR cuts DNA strands with unprecedented accuracy and simplicity, allowing geneticists to directly edit any of Earth's organisms however they like. CRISPR could be used to engineer disease-free organisms, formulate high-yield crops, or even cure genetic and hereditary human conditions. Of course, it could theoretically also be used to let parents pick their kid's sex, eye color, height, or ...
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CRISPR could be responsible for a new era of genetically perfected plants, animals, and even humans…but what the heck is it? Hello imperfect humans, Trace here for DNews. A few years ago, something called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats or CRISPR burst onto scene. It worked so well scientists began issuing ethical statements about its use. CRISPR cuts DNA strands with unprecedented accuracy and simplicity, allowing geneticists to directly edit any of Earth's organisms however they like. CRISPR could be used to engineer disease-free organisms, formulate high-yield crops, or even cure genetic and hereditary human conditions. Of course, it could theoretically also be used to let parents pick their kid's sex, eye color, height, or ...
