Edit the genome in all different ways and make cuts and changes in a quick way, with CRSPRs

Meet with one of those babies from
the CRSPR family...

"The ability to do this in mammalian cells is about 12 months old. It's only just been developed. And everybody I know is off using CRSPRs to go edit the genome in all different ways and make cuts and make changes, because it's incredibly quick. They're still working out all the details, how perfectly it has to match. A new paper just came out the other week about that. One I just saw was being submitted on the details of how to perfectly design CRSPRs and things like that. (...) People can now write their whole circuitry in DNA."" Eric Lander PhD, MIT Professor in Genomics.

From the "Genomics-it's-happening-right-under-our-feet" Department:

CRSPR (pronounce "crisper") means clustered regular short palindromatic repeats. And this is a Bacteria-Side Story...

Do people realize how quickly genetic engineering is approaching? W/ CRSPR we are really nearing the point where this’ll be going in vivo.
— Billare (@Billare) November 21, 2013

http://t.co/jdfyI62M7L Scientists invent CRSPR, DNA breakthrough!
— Michael Hoggard (@kingjamescode) November 14, 2013

Good CRSPR/cas overview. Commercial #genome editing on the horizon? via @drbachinsky http://t.co/9GcDbm0bsz
— Mark Wanner (@markgenome) November 8, 2013

@Billare @joe_pickrell Yes, the designer babies are coming! They will be a little mosaic at first w the crspr tech as I understand it.
— Rumen Kostadinov (@rkostadi) November 24, 2013

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