<h2>Splinter Cell</h2>
Scientists say they&#8217;ve gene-hacked a human cell, using CRISPR tech to turn it into a tiny biological computer complete with the cellular analog of dual core processors.
The squishy little CPUs could eventually lead to powerful computers housed entirely within a cell, <a href="https://newatlas.com/crispr-cell-computer/59336/">according to New Atlas</a>, that would detect and treat diseases.
<h2>Logic Gates</h2>
The cellular computers, <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/116/15/7214#abstract-2">described in research</a> published in the journal PNAS this month, mimic the normal process by which organisms turn genetic information into the proteins that carry out specific tasks within a cell.
The computer is programmed to take in specific genetic codes and perform computations that result in the production of a particular protein. Except instead of simply following the DNA&#8217;s genetic code as a cell does, the computer receives two inputs and combines them, calculating the correct protein to churn out.
<h2>Targeted Medicine</h2>
The researchers behind the cellular computers say that they could be programmed to scan for certain biomarkers signifying the <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-crispr-tech-cure-herpes">presence of a disease</a> and, if all the right conditions are met, mass produce molecules or proteins that could help treat it, according to New Atlas.
&#8220;Imagine a microtissue with billions of cells, each equipped with its own dual-core processor,&#8221; MIT researcher Martin Fussenegger told New Atlas. &#8220;Such &#8216;computational organs&#8217; could theoretically attain computing power that far outstrips that of a digital supercomputer — and using just a fraction of the energy.&#8221;
READ MORE: <a href="https://newatlas.com/crispr-cell-computer/59336/">CRISPR used to build dual-core computers inside human cells</a> [New Atlas]
More on CRISPR: <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-crispr-tech-cure-herpes">New CRISPR Tech Could Cure Herpes</a>

Welcome to the world of 'computational organs.'

Scientists used CRISPR to turn a cell into a biological computer

Cell Out

Using CRISPR gene editing tools, MIT scientists turned a human cell into a tiny computer that could be used to detect diseases and churn out treatments.

Scientists Used CRISPR to Turn a Cell Into a Biological Computer

"Imagine a microtissue with billions of cells, each equipped with its own dual-core processor."

<h2>Internal Review</h2>
After media revealed that Chinese scientist He Jiankui had conducted research that led to the birth of gene-hacked babies, it soon emerged that he had corresponded about the controversial work with American scientists.
Three of those scientists are from Stanford University, but an internal investigation conducted by the university just cleared all three of wrongdoing, <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613323/stanford-has-cleared-its-professors-over-the-crispr-baby-scandal/">according to the MIT Technology Review</a>. While the school&#8217;s faculty knew about the controversial and illegal research, the university maintains that they didn&#8217;t contribute to it.
<h2>Insider Knowledge</h2>
The three Stanford professors <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/stanford-probes-faculty-gene-hacked">named in the investigation</a> are Stephen Quake, He&#8217;s former employer, William Hurlbut, who <a href="https://futurism.com/gene-edited-baby-due">dropped the news</a> that a second gene-edited baby was on the way, and geneticist Matthew Porteus.
The three scientists all allegedly knew about He&#8217;s research but didn&#8217;t directly participate, <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/2019/04/16/stanford-statement-fact-finding-review-related-dr-jiankui/">according to a statement</a> released by Stanford on Tuesday. The statement goes even further, stating that the American researchers shared their concerns with He and that they were misled to believe that He had been granted institutional approval before beginning his experiments.
Missing from the statement, however, is any recommendation on what scientists ought to do when faced with research like He&#8217;s — though the bar seems to be set, implicitly, at not actively taking part.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613323/stanford-has-cleared-its-professors-over-the-crispr-baby-scandal/">Stanford has cleared its professors over the CRISPR baby scandal</a> [MIT Technology Review]
More on CRISPR babies: <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/stanford-probes-faculty-gene-hacked">Stanford Probes Faculty Who Knew About Gene-Hacked Chinese Babies</a>

The scientists knew about the research but didn't directly participate, which is apparently good enough.

Stanford declines to punish faculty for CRISPR babies

Stanford Says Stanford Is Good

After conducting an internal investigation into three professors who knew about He Jiankui's CRISPR baby research, Stanford let its faculty off the hook.

Stanford Declines to Punish Faculty For CRISPR Babies

They knew about it beforehand, but did nothing to stop it.

<h2>Human First</h2>
In June 2016, the National Institutes of Health gave a University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) research team the go-ahead to begin a human CRISPR <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601717/first-human-test-of-crispr-proposed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trial</a>.
On Monday, a UPenn spokesperson <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/16/712402435/first-u-s-patients-treated-with-crispr-as-gene-editing-human-trials-get-underway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed to NPR</a> that the institution&#8217;s researchers have officially started using CRISPR on humans — marking a national first that could lead to a more widespread use of the technology in the future.
<h2>Last Resort</h2>
The spokesperson told NPR that the UPenn team has thus far used CRISPR to treat two cancer patients, one with multiple myeloma and one with sarcoma. Both had relapsed after standard cancer treatments.
For the trial, the researchers removed immune system cells from the patients, used CRISPR to edit the cells to target tumors, and then returned the cells to the patients&#8217; bodies.
&#8220;Findings from this research study will be shared at an appropriate time via medical meeting presentation or peer-reviewed publication,&#8221; a UPenn spokesperson told NPR.
<h2>The Year of CRISPR</h2>
This might be the first human CRISPR trial in the U.S., but <a href="https://www.synthego.com/blog/crispr-cure-diseases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numerous others</a> are already in the works to see if the technology can effectively treat a variety of diseases and disorders.
As gene-editing scientist Fyodor Urnov told NPR, &#8220;2019 is the year when the training wheels come off and the world gets to see what CRISPR can really do for the world in the most positive sense.&#8221;
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/16/712402435/first-u-s-patients-treated-with-crispr-as-gene-editing-human-trials-get-underway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway</a> [NPR]
More on CRISPR: <a href="https://futurism.com/first-american-human-crispr-trial-target-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The First American CRISPR Trial in Humans Will Target Cancer</a>

"2019 is the year when the training wheels come off..."

The US has officially started using CRISPR on humans

Here We Go

The first human CRISPR trial in the U.S. has officially begun, with a UPenn team using the technology to treat two cancer patients.

The US Has Officially Started Using CRISPR on Humans

We're about to see what CRISPR can do against cancer.

<h2>Hunter-Seeker</h2>
Gene hacking techniques that were recently used in human cells for the first time could someday let doctors shred up and destroy viruses like herpes or hepatitis B inside human cells, scientists say.
The new technique is called CRISPR-Cas3 — usually, when you hear about CRISPR tech, it&#8217;s the Cas9 variety — and Cornell researchers believe it could be used to cure viral diseases, according to a <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/04/crispr-cas3-innovation-holds-promise-disease-cures-advancing-science">university-published press release</a>.
<h2>DNA Shredder</h2>
The scientists used Cas3 to <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/crispr-cas3-shredder-human-cells">identify and shred</a> long stretches of human DNA, <a href="https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(19)30217-5#%20">according to research</a> published in the journal Molecular Cell last week. The new gene-hacking tool makes more and broader cuts in genetic material than CRISPR-Cas9, meaning it could let scientists quickly learn what specific, long stretches of genetic information do and how they interact with certain diseases.
It also means that the gene-hacking tool could attack and shred viral DNA.
&#8220;My lab spent the past ten years figuring out how CRISPR-Cas3 works. I am thrilled that my colleagues and I finally demonstrated its genome editing activity in human cells,&#8221; said Cornell molecular biologist Ailong Ke. &#8220;Our tools can be made to target these viruses very specifically and then erase them very efficiently. In theory, it could provide a cure for these viral diseases.&#8221;
READ MORE: <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/04/crispr-cas3-innovation-holds-promise-disease-cures-advancing-science">CRISPR-Cas3 innovation holds promise for disease cures, advancing science</a> [Cornell Chronicle]
More on CRISPR-Cas3: <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/crispr-cas3-shredder-human-cells">Researchers use CRISPR &#8220;Shredder&#8221; on Human DNA for First Time</a>

"My lab spent the past ten years figuring out how CRISPR-Cas3 works. I am thrilled that my colleagues and I finally demonstrated its genome editing activity in human cells."

New CRISPR tech could cure herpes

Gene Hacking

Cornell scientists developed a new type of gene-hacking technology that acts like a DNA "shredder." It could be used to cure diseases like herpes.

New CRISPR Tech Could Cure Herpes

CRISPR-Cas3 can target and erase viruses in human cells — including, potentially, herpes.

<h2>DNA Shredder</h2>
<a href="https://futurism.com/crispr-genetic-engineering-change-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CRISPR-Cas9</a> allows researchers to make very precise cuts in DNA. But precise cuts aren&#8217;t always needed, because sometimes it makes more sense to splice up an entire sequence of DNA — and now researchers have a CRISPR tool that can do just that.
&#8220;Cas9 is a molecular scissor that goes where you want it and snips once,&#8221; University of Michigan researcher Yan Zhang said in a <a href="https://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/201904/new-dna-%E2%80%9Cshredder%E2%80%9D-technique-goes-beyond-crispr%E2%80%99s-scissors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. &#8220;But Cas3 goes where you want it, travels along the chromosome, and makes a spectrum of deletions tens of kilobases long.&#8221;
It&#8217;s like a &#8220;DNA shredder with a motor,&#8221; she added.
<h2>Deleted Segment</h2>
In a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1097276519302175?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published on Monday in the journal Molecular Cell, Zhang and her colleagues describe how they were able to use Type I CRISPR-Cas3 to &#8220;shred&#8221; segments of DNA 300 to 100,000 base pairs long in human embryotic stem cells and HAP1 cells.
The experiment marked the first time anyone had used this CRISPR tool in human cells, and the researchers see a number of potential future applications.
For one, scientists could use Type I CRISPR-Cas3 to shred long sequences of non-coding DNA — DNA that doesn&#8217;t provide instructions for making proteins and the function of which is often unknown — to see what happens. This could help them track down large segments of DNA important for specific diseases.
They could also remove the shredding function altogether and use Cas3 as a long-range delivery system for epigenetic drugs.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/201904/new-dna-%E2%80%9Cshredder%E2%80%9D-technique-goes-beyond-crispr%E2%80%99s-scissors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New DNA “shredder” technique goes beyond CRISPR’s scissors</a> [University of Michigan]
More on CRISPR: <a href="https://futurism.com/crispr-genetic-engineering-change-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A CRISPR Future: Five Ways Gene Editing Will Transform Our World</a>

They deleted segments of DNA 300 to 100,000 base pairs long.

Researchers use CRISPR "shredder" on human DNA for first time

Chopping DNA

Researchers have used Type 1 CRISPR-Cas3, which "shreds" DNA, in human cells for the first time, giving scientists a powerful new gene-editing tool.

Researchers Use CRISPR “Shredder” on Human DNA for First Time

It could help researchers discover DNA segments essential to diseases.

<h2>Pink Babies</h2>
For the first time, reptiles have been gene-edited with CRISPR technology.
Scientists at University of Georgia bred four brown anole lizards to be albino pink instead of their typical brown, <a href="https://newatlas.com/genetically-edited-lizards/59161/">according to New Atlas</a>. The findings show that CRISPR gene-editing tech is more resilient than scientists previously thought.
<h2>Tricky Business</h2>
So far, geneticists have shied away from gene-editing lizards because their eggs are particularly fragile — the process of introducing new genes into them is likely to kill them instead.
Georgia&#8217;s solution: rather than gene-editing a fertilized egg as a CRISPR scientist might with a mammal or other animal, the scientists injected unfertilized eggs and waited for nature to run its eventual course.
After 146 injections into 21 female lizards, the scientists ended up with four mutant albinos, according to New Atlas.
<h2>Surprising Longevity</h2>
But the albino lizards had CRISPR-induced mutations not only in the genes they got from their mothers, but also those from their fathers, meaning the CRISPR proteins that caused the gene edits stuck around long enough to also interact with the fathers&#8217; sperm.
The discovery that CRISPR proteins are more resilient and long-lasting than previously thought could lead to <a href="https://futurism.com/crispr-cancer-p53">new human treatments</a>, such as improving eyesight, the scientists behind the research told New Atlas.
&#8220;That was a surprise,&#8221; lead researcher Douglas Menke told New Atlas. &#8220;It enabled us to see the functional requirements of the gene without having to breed mutated animals to produce offspring who inherit the mutated gene from both parents. It&#8217;s a big time-saver.&#8221;
READ MORE: <a href="https://newatlas.com/genetically-edited-lizards/59161/">World&#8217;s first gene-edited lizards are in the pink</a> [New Atlas]
More on CRISPR: <a href="https://futurism.com/handheld-device-crispr-diagnose-genetic-conditions">Handheld CRISPR Device Diagnoses Genetic Disease in 15 Minutes</a>

It's the first time particularly-fragile reptile eggs were gene-edited.

Scientists gene-hacked lizards to make them albino

Pink Eyes Pink Dragon

For the first time, scientists used CRISPR to gene-edit lizards, uncovering techniques that could lead to new medical treatments for humans.

Scientists Gene-Hacked Lizards to Make Them Albino

These mutant lizards are the first time in history that reptiles have been gene-edited.

<h2>Gene Hackman</h2>
A fascinating new <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-01/china-s-demand-for-17-000-gene-altered-lab-mice-is-skyrocketing">Bloomberg story</a> looks at the growing market for mice scientists have gene-edited to mimic human diseases ranging from prostate cancer to diabetes.
Researchers are shelling out big money for the CRISPR-modified rodents, according to Bloomberg, sometimes paying as much as $17,000 for a pair — a medicine-disrupting development that&#8217;s projected to be a $1.59 billion industry by 2022.
<h2>Mouse Model</h2>
Bloomberg talked to Charles Lee, a former Harvard Medical School professor who&#8217;s using the gene-edited mice to develop new personalized cancer treatments in China.
&#8220;When you do these experiments, you want to be as close as possible to the way these tumors are growing in our bodies,&#8221; Lee told the magazine. &#8220;That’s not in a test tube or a petri dish. That’s in a living organism.&#8221;
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-01/china-s-demand-for-17-000-gene-altered-lab-mice-is-skyrocketing">China&#8217;s Selling Genetically-Modified Mice for $17,000 a Pair</a> [Bloomberg]
More on mice: <a href="https://futurism.com/mice-night-vision-nanoparticles">Scientists Give Mice “Super Vision” With Eye Injections</a>

"That’s not in a test tube or a petri dish. That’s in a living organism."

These $17,000 mice are gene-edited to mimic human diseases

Micemotif

A fascinating new story looks at the growing market for gene-edited mice engineered to mimic human disease ranging from prostate cancer to diabetes.

These $17,000 Mice Are Gene-Edited to Mimic Human Diseases

Pick a disease, any disease.

<h2>Standardized Testing</h2>
To help make genetic screening easier and more accessible, scientists built a handheld device that uses CRISPR gene-editing technology to scan for mutations much more easily than existing labs can.
The device, which Keck Graduate Institute bioengineer Kiana Aran told Futurism looks a bit like a blood glucose monitor, can analyze a purified DNA sample for <a href="https://futurism.com/crispr-successfully-treats-genetic-disorder-adult-mammals-first-time">signs of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy</a> in a matter of 15 minutes — a major improvement compared to conventional wait times of several weeks.
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<h2>Long Road</h2>
The new technology, described in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-019-0371-x">research published Monday</a> in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, uses a transistor made of graphene that&#8217;s sensitive enough to detect the trace amount of DNA taken from a blood sample. The DNA still needs to be extracted and purified prior to analysis, so scanning for mutations is still more involved than a glucose test.
But the device makes the process much simpler than existing methods. Normally, genetic screening involves more labwork, as scientists need to replicate and amplify the DNA sample until there&#8217;s enough to analyze.
While this technology could help streamline medical clinics, Aran told Futurism that they&#8217;re working on laboratory applications to make sure that everything works like its supposed to before they tackle the FDA approval process for clinical devices.
&#8220;A clinical tool requires clinical trials, a mature regulatory strategy, and an understanding of the billing practices in diagnostics,&#8221; Aran told Futurism. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking with companies who would be great at pushing our lab tool into diagnostics, with a goal of setting up partnerships to make that happen. So, commercialization of the quality control and validation tool this year, and a clinical tool to come later.&#8221;
<h2>Cookie Cutter</h2>
Right now, Aran and her team focused on developing the technology to diagnose Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic condition caused by genetic mutations to a particular gene.
&#8220;As a practice right now, boys who have DMD are typically not screened until we know that something is wrong, and then they undergo a genetic confirmation,&#8221; UC Berkeley bioengineer Irina Conboy, who contributed to the research and in whose lab Aran first developed the idea for a handheld testing device, said in a <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/25/new-crispr-powered-device-detects-genetic-mutations-in-minutes/">university-published press release</a>.
The goal isn’t to create a universal testing device, because screening each new genetic condition or mutation would mean outfitting the device with new genetic biomarkers, but Aran does hope to add more conditions down the road.
&#8220;Almost certainly, each diagnostic test is going to require its own set of clinical trials and regulatory filing,&#8221; Aran told Futurism. &#8220;However, it will be technically easy to simply design different guide RNAs for different tests. Almost like just sending the chip a new search query like when you google something. There are still a lot of business and regulatory hurdles before the technology can be used freely in the clinic, and we believe in partnering with the FDA instead of going against them as we understand they are here to keep us all safe.&#8221;
More on CRISPR: <a href="https://futurism.com/crispr-cancer-p53">CRISPR Could Help Us Cure Diseases. It Could Also Cause Cancer.</a>

Instead of complicated labwork, the device needs a purified DNA sample and 15 minutes.

Handheld CRISPR device diagnoses genetic disease in 15 minutes

Bedside Testing

Scientists built a handheld device that uses CRISPR genetic tools and graphene transistors to screen for the mutations behind muscular dystrophy.

Handheld CRISPR Device Diagnoses Genetic Disease in 15 Minutes

The device could make genetic testing easier and more accessible.

<h2>New Rules</h2>
The World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations, is trying to sort out how scientists could responsibly alter human genomes in their labs — an effort to prevent the next He Jiankui from performing <a href="https://futurism.com/scientist-gene-hacked-babies-boosted-brains">unpublicized genetic experiments</a> on human subjects.
Specifically, the WHO <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/19-03-2019-who-expert-panel-paves-way-for-strong-international-governance-on-human-genome-editing">announced Tuesday</a> that an advisory committee didn&#8217;t recommend banning human gene-editing research, but did argue that researchers ought to have to register with the government before beginning an experiment.
<h2>Promoting Transparency</h2>
Many of the organization&#8217;s recommendations mirror the way clinical research is currently managed in the U.S., where scientists are required to seek approval from regulatory bodies in advance and are required to publish updates to their studies in a <a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/">publicly-accessible database</a>.
&#8220;Gene editing holds incredible promise for health, but it also poses some risks, both ethically and medically,&#8221; said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
<h2>Big Difference</h2>
<a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/who-panel-calls-for-a-registry-of-gene-editing-research-in-humans-65619">The Scientist </a><a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/who-panel-calls-for-a-registry-of-gene-editing-research-in-humans-65619">points out</a> that the WHO has arrived at different conclusions than many scientists who have called for a temporary halt on human gene-editing research so that leaders in the field can figure out the most responsible and ethical way to move forward. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the WHO wants scientists to throw caution to the wind.
&#8220;The committee agrees that it is irresponsible at this time for anyone to proceed with clinical applications of human germline genome editing,&#8221; committee co-chairwoman Margaret Hamburg said in a press briefing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/health/who-panel-demands-a-registry-for-human-gene-editing.html">attended by The New York Times</a>.
These recommendations may change, however. The panel of experts will continue to investigate human gene-editing over the next two years, consulting other experts and leaders before they come up with a finalized set of international standards.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/who-panel-calls-for-a-registry-of-gene-editing-research-in-humans-65619">WHO Panel Calls For a Registry of Gene-Editing Research in Humans</a> [The Scientist]
More on gene editing: <a href="https://futurism.com/gene-editing-human-embryos-us">Another Scientist Is Gene-Editing Human Embryos — but More Ethically</a>

"The committee agrees that it is irresponsible at this time for anyone to proceed with clinical applications of human germline genome editing."

United Nations calls for registry of human gene-editing projects

Take Two

The World Health Organization called for a public registry for all human gene-editing research to prevent any more debacles like that caused by He Jiankui

United Nations Calls for Registry of Human Gene-Editing Projects

An advisory committee fell short of calling for a ban on the technology.

<h2>All-Clear</h2>
The Japanese government seems poised to rule that CRISPR-edited foods are safe to eat.
At least, that&#8217;s the recommendation made by a panel of scientists who just <a href="https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/shingi2/0000203059_00011.html">published a report</a> on how gene-edited foods could safely and responsibly be introduced into the marketplace. Now the final decision rests on the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/gene-edited-foods-are-safe-japanese-panel-concludes">according to Science Magazine</a> — a potentially transitional moment in global food systems.
&#8220;There is little difference between traditional breeding methods and gene editing in terms of safety,&#8221; panel chair Hirohito Sone, an endocrinologist at Niigata University, <a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190318_25/">told NHK</a>.
<h2>Fine Print</h2>
The advisory panel concluded that <a href="https://futurism.com/crispr-groundcherries">CRISPR-edited foods</a> shouldn&#8217;t have to go through any more safety testing than anything else. But that&#8217;s only if the scientists who did the gene editing didn&#8217;t leave any foreign DNA — genes taken from any other organism — in the final product.
Also, the panel recommended that anyone producing or selling gene-edited food would need to make public exactly what genetic alterations they made in order to help ease public skepticism.
<h2>Reassurances</h2>
Japan has struggled with genetically-altered foods in the past, Science reports. When Japan approved the sale of genetically modified foods — which by their very nature contain foreign DNA — the public largely rejected them.
To prevent a similar backlash, many of the recommendations made by the Japanese advisory panel promote transparency so that consumers know exactly what they&#8217;re buying and how it does and doesn&#8217;t differ from other foods.
&#8220;Thorough explanations [of the new technologies] are needed to ease public concerns,&#8221; Sone said.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/gene-edited-foods-are-safe-japanese-panel-concludes">Gene-edited foods are safe, Japanese panel concludes</a> [Science Magazine]
More on CRISPR: <a href="https://futurism.com/geneticists-have-used-crispr-gene-editing-to-create-crops-that-grow-more-food">Geneticists Have Used CRISPR Gene Editing to Create Crops That Grow More Food</a>

Just so long as people making the food don't leave any foreign DNA in it.

Japan determines that CRISPR-edited foods are safe

Food-Grade Genetics

A panel of scientists just recommended to the Japanese government that CRISPR-edited foods should be declared safe to eat.

/Crispr