By Sofia Phillips – Thred
Just as the technology is promising new therapies for everything from heart disease to cancer, some researchers believe that tinkering with the epigenome could help reverse the damage done by trauma.
In recent years, scientists have made strides towards treating diseases through gene-editing technology, their most promising breakthrough being the discovery of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats).
The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell.
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