Month: December 2015

The picture shows an edited plant on the right which is shorter and has an altered pod structure. The wildtype plant is on the left. Credit: The John Innes Centre  CRISPR gene-editing is allowing rapid scientific advances in many fields, including human health and now...

More than ever, we can view the genomes of humans and other organisms as drafts—not final and canonical texts, but rough copies to be tweaked and refined. Although scientists have been able to edit genomes for many decades, their tools were often cumbersome to work...