using it for non-therapeutic and enhancement purposes,
This is very scary implications.
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- May 2018
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www.genome.gov www.genome.gov
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the patients affected by the edits are the embryo and future generations
Doesn't this put cell lumps/hypothetical people above the human and sentient women that are expected to deliver them?
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there is concern that genome editing will only be accessible to the wealthy and will increase existing disparities in access to health care and other interventions.
This is a very good point!
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www.sciencenewsforstudents.org www.sciencenewsforstudents.org
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tag (in biology) To attach some rugged band or package of instruments onto an animal.
can heavier nucleotide bases act as a tag?
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clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.”
Why would it be useful for bacteria to have these palindromic repeats?
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At first, that meant anything that involved cutting DNA. CRISPR/Cas9 in its original form is a homing device (the CRISPR part) that guides molecular scissors (the Cas9 enzyme) to a target section of DNA. Together, they work as a genetic-engineering cruise missile that disables or repairs a gene, or inserts something new where the Cas9 scissors has made some cuts.
So is the CRISPR part controlled by scientists?
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- Jan 2018
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www.grinnell.edu www.grinnell.edu
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Thursday, January 25, 2018, 11am – 12pm
this is an annotation
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Workshop: ASTEP
looks cool
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