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1 Genome Editing Katie Plummer

2 What is Genome Editing? Editing genes to potentially erase genetic defects and or inherited diseases

3 CRISPR Technology Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats CRISPR/Cas9 - editing tool Using CRISPR to edit genes with an enzyme called Cas9

4 Editing Process

5 Editing Out HIV University of Massachusetts Medical School
Cas9 to cut the DNA of the latent virus out of an infected cell Imprecise Technique

6 Twin Cynomolgus Monkeys
First monkeys genetically engineered in China

7 Genome Editing Ethics Cure diseases Simple Process
Enzyme cutting and affecting other genes Altering a human genome that could last for generations Designer Babies


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