DNA, chromosomes, cells, inheritance

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"Gene-editing is a technique to manipulate an organism's genome or gene or DNA sequence which might be insertion or deletion. CRISPR-CAS9 system is one of the popular gene-editing techniques so far."

The researcher He Jiankui was jailed for using CRISPR to create customized babies. Some observers say that the real problem was the lure of the technology, Dana Goodyear writes.

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