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CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Germline Intervention

Genetic modifications in reproductive cells, such as eggs, sperm, or embryos, are commonly referred to as germline editing and are heritable. 1 CRISPR-Cas 9, which stands for clustered regularly ...
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CRISPR-Cas9 Off-Target Effects: Challenges and Solutions

The CRISPR-Cas (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR) and its associated protein (Cas9) system is a genome-editing technology that holds the potential to alleviate multiple ...