CRISPR Trials To Watch In 2017

CRISPR gene-editing has been called the scientific breakthrough of the century … and sometimes, it feels like we’ve been hearing about it for just as long. Bacterial palindromic repeats—which are key to this technology—were first discovered in the 1980s. But it took years for scientists to uncover their function … and even longer to use that information to develop CRISPR-Cas 9 gene-editing.

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