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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Jennifer A. Doudna & Samuel H. Sternberg's A Crack in Creation.
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1) In 1983, biologist Jack Szostak discovered a repair mechanism for breaks in the double strand of DNA.
2) The famous structure of DNA is the double helix, which consists of two strands. In the repair procedure, it is broken by enzymes before a corrected copy of DNA is inserted, which facilitates the healthy copy's incorporation....
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"A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era; a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR--a revolutionary...
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