Science
21 min
CRISPR: The Editor That Cannot Read
We can rewrite any gene on Earth, but we still can't read most of them.
CRISPR has made the cut trivial. Outcomes at over a thousand genomic sites can be predicted from a single nucleotide, and the first gene-editing therapy is already curing patients. But most of the genome remains uncharted, and the precision of the edit has outrun our understanding of what we are editing.
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