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67. We Can Play God Now

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Is There a Way to Control Cellular Sickle Cello?

The way that it's done in the laboratory or in a clinic is to take a collection of those cells and treat them in a test tube with a formulation of crisper. And so if you do this in mass, i'm imagining one crisper per cell, very organized and orderly. But presumably the crispers don't know what the other crispers are doing, and so many of them might go over the same cell and undo the work the one before it. It seems like it wouldn't be somethi line like when they go to work. Well, you're right that you could have multiple crisper molecules getting into the same cell. The thing is that once the editing is done

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