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If Athletes Can Edit Their Own DNA, How Will We Detect It? – Technology Networks
The ability to edit the genetic code of a human being in vivo may have once seemed a far-off fantasy. But the advent of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology has…
The ability to edit the genetic code of a human being in vivo may have once seemed a far-off fantasy. But the advent of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, which saw Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has made it very much a reality.
Aside from a small number of clinical trials testing CRISPR-Cas9-based gene therapies, human genome editing is currently restricted by laws and regulations in most countries. But this hasn’t dissuaded a group of individuals…
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