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A CRISPR Future for Agriculture
Pairwise CEO Tom Adams explains how gene editing is reshaping crops, boosting yields, and making fruits and vegetables more consumer friendly.
Photos by Anna Routh Barzin, courtesy of Pairwise
Although still in its early days, CRISPR has already been called the most powerful scientific tool of the century. Using programmable “scissors” that make precise edits to DNA to encourage desired biological traits and erase unwanted ones, its applications are already far-reaching. In the past year alone, CRISPR-based therapies have advanced in clinical trials aiming to excise latent HIV from human cells, and the first gene-editing treatments for sickle cell disease have moved from trial to pati…
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