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1.Development of CRISPR to cure modified but modify RNA and a single
genetic diseases base pair. These new techniques allow the
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short main disease to be cured all while
Palindromic Repeats is a genome editing preventing any new mistakes from
technology that can be used to modify occurring.
existing DNA and help to cure genetic
diseases such as deafness, cystic fibrosis, This development of technology can have
mental illnesses and even support the cure large scale benefits by saving lives and
for cancer. improving living conditions for several
individuals and creating new areas, where
However until 2017, this technology had a greater research can be done to find cures
large loophole: the genome manipulation to more acute diseases.
could possibly go wrong. Therefore
scientists at Harvard and MIT collaborated CRISPR’s Cas protein unwinding the DNA,
to find the solution and they successfully which is the first step to targeting the RNA.
did so. They found two different techniques
that do not require DNA to be directly It can be concluded that in 2017 science
pushed the boundaries of our knowledge and
flourished exponentially. The developments of
