Gene editing is a group of technologies that enable scientists to precisely alter an organism's DNA. These technologies allow for the addition, removal, or alteration of genetic material at specific ...

The technology uses a lab-made sequence of genetic code. This has two roles, one is to find the specific part of the DNA you want to edit and the other contains the change you want to make.

In ordinary genome editing, cutting DNA’s double strand can induce insertions or deletions in the break, either during the repair process or when inserting sequences through homologous ...

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit ... piece of DNA. However, CRISPR has also been adapted to do other things too, such as turning genes on or off without altering their sequence.

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