Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 8/20/17

Science and ethics experts took part in a first-of-its-kind conference on the role of gene editing. CRISPRcon – a summit named for the genome editing technique creating Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) – brought together a diverse set of panelists to discuss this emerging technology.CRISPR technology allows for precise changes to be made to the DNA of living cells, which holds the potential to eradicate diseases...

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