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67. We Can Play God Now

People I (Mostly) Admire

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How to Find the Exact Jean Out of All the Diana

It's an extraordinary task to be able to identify a single region of the d and a of an entire cell. The script that incodes all the information necessary to make a human being or a magnolia is typically billions of base pairs in length, if we're talking about a human or a plant. To be able to use a tool that will go inside the cell and sift through all that dion to find a single target sequence where we're going to induce a change to that sequence is extraordinary. Itstill blows my mind, actually.

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