genetic engineering

  • What Is CRISPR And What Can It Really Do?

    What Is CRISPR And What Can It Really Do?

    A DNA-editing technique called CRISPR keeps popping up in the news, in one medical breakthrough after another. In theory, CRISPR can find any problem area in DNA, snip it out, and replace it with a fresh set of nucleotides. But in real life, that cut-and-paste job isn’t always straightforward.