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“A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA” tells the beginning of gene editing. It all starts with Japanese scientist noticing unusual repeated DNA sequences. This later helped scientist to realize that DNA could be edited. Within this article it talks about different discoveries about genome editing and also has an educational image of Crispr editing.

This article answers the questions of what is gene editing, what it might treat and the biggest hurdle. Also the ethnic controversy, if it is legal and its possibility beyond medicine. This helps my presentation because it talks about what gene editing could fix, like cancer and HIV.

This article discusses the ethical, social and legal issues of gene editing. Different restrictions and regulations in

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