Gene Editing

Mankind has been manipulating genetics since early civilizations realized that certain traits of crops, animals and humans themselves were hereditary. The modern-day mapping of all human genes raised the prospects of learning precisely which genes control which traits and then directly altering their DNA codes. For years, those tasks proved both cumbersome and hit-and-miss. But a new technology is changing that. Called Crispr, it’s a gene-editing system so cheap, effective and easy to use, it pr