Anne van Schoonhoven is in the Departments of Pulmonary Medicine and of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3015 GD, the Netherlands. Ralph Stadhouders is in the Departments of ...

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Building on the CRISPR gene-editing system, MIT researchers have designed a new tool that can snip out faulty genes and replace them with new ones, in a safer and more efficient way. Using this system ...

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(Nanowerk News) Building on the CRISPR gene-editing system, MIT researchers have designed a new tool that can snip out faulty genes and replace them with new ones, in a safer and more efficient way.