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    Gene genie

    Apr 25, 2021 2 minutes
    by Bob Brockie

    Crispr is a gene-editing technique that acts like scissors to cut and paste DNA. Its story began in 1987 when scientists discovered that bacteria have strange repetitive lengths of DNA of unknown function.

    In 2002, these regions were given the name Crispr. Those bacteria were pretty smart. More

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