Most people do not yet understand the potential impact of our newfound ability to edit and eventually rewrite genetic code, the blueprint for life itself.
At least, so say a number a number of experts in genetics and genomics. That idea was the major common thread in a series of interviews with some of the leading researchers in the field.
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Please read the article so you are not 'most people'. I also truly believe this will be big. This is the technology that allows a gene drive that could exterminate a mosquito species for example.
This is one of those things that I know is coming, but that I don't really understand. I probably need some real applications to fully appreciate the scope of this. Not that I can't imagine some, I just don't really understand the technology. I am to gene modification what my mother is to software.
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