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The use of CRISPR-Cas9 for gene editing has the potential to be one of the most important technical advancements we've discovered this decade. One of the first
by magneticnorth 7y ago
The use of CRISPR-Cas9 for gene editing has the potential to be one of the most important technical advancements we've discovered this decade.
One of the first major papers on it, from 2012: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22745249 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22745249
- Engineering-MD 7y agoI would second this. CRISPR is a potentially hugely influential tool which has massively changed research already, allowing production of novel strains much more cheaply. Not to mention the possibility for in Vivo genetic editing. I would say is the biggest technical advancement in genetics ever.