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Speaking with: Professor Peter Koopman on CRISPR and the power of genome editing

  • Written by: William Isdale, Research Assistant, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
imageEditing DNA has the potential to treat disease by repairing or removing defective genes. Kyle Lawson/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

CRISPR, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, is a technology that is able to alter DNA.

While this sounds like the realms of science fiction, right now scientists are investigating its potential to...

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