Clara tells Emily what the heck Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats are, goes into some of the uses of the gene editing technique, and discusses some of the controversy surrounding CRISPR worldwide.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6342697/

https://www.synthego.com/blog/gene-editing-nobel-prize#charpentier-and-doudna-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-developing-crispr-technology

https://www.jax.org/personalized-medicine/precision-medicine-and-you/what-is-crispr

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/genomicresearch/genomeediting/

https://www.synthego.com/blog/crispr-applications

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