General Article Genetic modification, genome editing and CRISPR

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By the Personal Genetics Education Project based in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School (pgEd.org). As the technology is moving at a rapid pace, pgEd recommends visiting http://pged.org/genetic-modification-genome-editing-and-crispr/ for regular updates related to this article.

Different countries and organizations define genetic modification (GM) slightly differently. In general, GM refers to making changes to a living thing’s genetic information that would otherwise not occ...

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