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What is a genetically modified organism?

What is a genetically modified organism?

17 July 2020

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is usually defined as an organism whose DNA has been altered by genetic engineering.
CRISPR is a powerful technique for editing DNA

‘Scientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-edited’

29 November 2018

He Jiankui has now presented his controversial work at a gene editing summit in Hong Kong. CRISPR expert Helen O’Neill of University College London was there

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