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Wageningen World: 'CRISPR-Cas makes it possible to cure people'
It is a dream solution for molecular biological research. The CRISPR-Cas9 technique allows changes to be made in DNA quickly and cheaply. 'Hopefully, it will very soon be possible to cure people. Wouldn't that be fantastic?'
Read about it in the article ‘Quick and simple gene repairs’ in the new edition of Wageningen World.
Wageningen World, the quarterly magazine of Wageningen University & Research, came out on 19 december 2017.
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