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Everything You Need To Know About Gene Editing - Science Times

Everything You Need To Know About Gene Editing - Science Times

Everything You Need To Know About Gene Editing - Science Times
Oct 29, 2020 1 min, 11 secs

The first-ever gene-editing technology was developed in the late 20th century, and the latest genome editing tool was invented in 2012, which is called CRISPR.

Compared to previous gene-editing technologies, CRISPR offers more accurate editing methods, and it is also simpler, faster, and cheaper.

Most scientists today use CRISPR to perform gene editing.

There are many things to know about gene editing as there are many creepy connotations about it.

Through gene editing technologies, it can alter these harmful characteristics so that the offspring do not suffer the same inherited diseases.

May it be an animal, human, or plant, gee editing can fix these genetic problems.

There are no international laws yet governing gene-editing technologies on the human genome.

But different countries have laws implementing the regulation of genome editing, according to Nature.

For example, human genome editing is prohibited in many countries, including much of Europe, because its long-term effect is not yet well understood.

Nonetheless, many long for international guidelines in germline editing human genome.

Gene editing experiments have been executed before and many of which are on animals.

But among those four commonly used animals, it is the pigs that are in the frontline of gene editing experiments, according to Nature. From the small pigs that weigh six times lesser than farm pigs to the big pigs, they have been part of the success in gene editing technologies.

Everything You Need To Know About Gene Editing

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