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How CRISPR Might Spark Debate and Bring Woolly Mammoths Back – zocalopublicsquare.org
Bringing extinct species back to life may sound like science fiction, but it’s a real thing—perhaps the most important to occur during the past 4.5 billion years….
by Frederic C. Rich|November 19, 2020
Bringing extinct species back to life may sound like science fiction, but its a real thingperhaps the most important to occur during the past 4.5 billion years. Called de-extinction, the resurrection of lost species is one of the many applications to be revolutionized by the new gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9. CRISPR, which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, hit the headlines in October when researchers Jennifer Doudna…
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