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Science from a Tweet: Gene editing – a step too far?

April 1, 2015

by Delia Lenzi

Using an increasingly popular gene-editing toolkit called CRISPR, Gantz and Bier were able to overcome the classic rules of Mendelian genetics. This is an impressive example of gene drive: biasing inheritance to spread a gene rapidly through a population, or even an entire species.

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