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By Madeline KingPosted on

Explaining CRISPR: The Genetic Scissors that Won the Nobel Prize

While modifying the genes within cells used to be a difficult, time-intensive task, the CRISPR genetic scissors make it possible to change the DNA of animals, plants, and microorganisms with acute precision over a much shorter time period.

  • Applied Biology
By Jessica CascioPosted on

Let’s end the negative rhetoric surrounding GMOs

Often depicted as “Frankenfoods”—monstrous mutant meals cooked up in a laboratory—genetically modified organisms (GMOs) get a pretty bad rap. And unnecessarily so.

  • Applied Biology
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