An on-off switch for gene editing (IMAGE)

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

An on-off switch for gene editing

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A new CRISPR method allows researchers to silence most genes in the human genome without altering the underlying DNA sequence -- and then reverse the changes.

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Jennifer Cook-Chrysos/Whitehead Institute

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