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Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
Latham, Jonathan
http://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/03/researchers-are-substantially-undercounting-gene-editing-errors/Date Written: 2020-03-03 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2020 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24075 The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the researchers called such oversights "serious pitfalls" of gene editing. Subject Headings |