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CRISPR’s Big Year: Top Breakthroughs of 2020 – Freethink
2020 was a big year for the gene-editing tool CRISPR. It was used to cure disease, edit DNA in a human’s eye, and even gene-edit pigs.
CRISPR, a tool for editing the genetic code in living organisms, was first discovered in 2007. Since then, the prospect of eliminating diseases by editing the human genome has been hovering on the edge of science fiction and reality.
Until 2020.
Here are four incredible CRISPR breakthroughs that happened this year.
Better Precision with a Tiny Protein
“When we think about how CRISPR will be applied in the future, that is really one of the most important bottlenecks to the field right now: delivery,”…
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