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CRISPR

06/05/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

CRISPR gene editing found to cause hundreds of “unintended mutations”, warn scientists

When you choose to interfere with nature, you should be prepared for results that are far from natural. That’s the message of a new study out of the Columbia University Medical Center, where researchers are warning scientists that the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology results in unintended mutations that could go undetected. As a relatively new […]

10/05/2016 / By Randall Wilkens

Monsanto hopes to get around restrictions on GMOs by using unregulated method to tweak genes

Monsanto, one of the world’s leading producers of foods containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, recently announced that they were getting away from the GMO game slightly as they have purchased a new technology from the Broad Institute. This new method, CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, allows scientists to manipulate DNA […]

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