Posts Tagged ‘Genome’

Human embryo editing “meddling with Tree of Life”

Thursday, August 3rd, 2017

Biologists in Oregon have edited the DNA of viable human embryos using the revolutionary genome-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9. Their work went beyond previous experiments using CRISPR to alter the DNA of human embryos, all of which were conducted in China,as it edited the genomes of many more embryos and targeted a gene associated with a significant Read more