it cuts the DNA disabling the virus
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
Replace a mutant gene with an healthy copy
Used by bacteria to protect themselves from infections
Cas9
It can target multiple genes simultaneously
it's used to understand the function of genes
it could cut any DNA sequence at a chosen location
It can quickly create cell and animal models
used for research into diseases
rapid diagnostic
CRISPR
CRISPR applications
drug development
infectious diseases
congenital disorders
biomedicine
agricultural biotechnology
Limitations
Ethical issues
violation of the order of nature
formation of chimeras for organ transplantation
non-therapeutic interventions
to match genetics to life interests
application of CRISPR on human germline
possibility to alter human genes
absence of regulations for consumers
ecological disequilibrium
Sottoargomento
Technical limitations
incomplete or inaccurate genetic editing
could cause unwanted and risky mutations
