
Reshaping Evolution
TED Radio Hour
CRISPR-Cas9: A Genome Editing Tool
CRISPR is a naturally occurring phenomenon in bacteria. It's an adaptive immune system that bacteria employ to protect themselves from viral infection. Scientists have been working on gene editing for a long time but there had never been a tool quite like this, right? "It actually is cutting and pasting information in the DNA"
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