Thanks to CRISPR, the meddling mogul's plans to 'improve' life as we know it are more ambitious than ever.
Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum are promoting CRISPR as a game-changing tool in science, but behind the excitement are serious concerns about its risks.
For the uninititated, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats technology is a gene-editing tool that allows for modifications of DNA in living organisms. Recent research reveals that CRISPR, while effective at editing genes to address inherited diseases, often introduces unintended consequences, including large-scale DNA mutations.
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