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this is DNA it's the blueprint for making living things from single-cell bacteria to plants to animals including to humans it influences almost every part of your physical being that she put how's the color of your eyes sometimes your likelihood of getting certain diseases but what if science could redraw your body's blueprint what if it were possible to edit your DNA in certain sequences that changed narrative traits remove genes that cause disease will now it is more possible than ever with Christopher Christopher is a combination of a scissor like proteins such as one called cast nine and a guide molecule the molecule acts as a bloodhound taking crispr on the hunt to specific sites within the Gino once they're the proteins Crest the cell's DNA on the spot that completely disables the targeted Gene the cells been repair their DNA they put in a new DNA what's the Bloodhound also carried or simply patch up the break caused by Crispers molecular scissors enter tiny cellular machines called ribosomes they translate the edited blueprint producing healthy protein but the repaired jeans Crispers ability to repair maybe most important at the beginning of Life edit the Genome of a very early embryo when created by in vitro fertilization and couples who carry disease causing mutations may be able to have children horse what's a child is born with a genetic disease such as Huntington's or Tay-Sachs it is more difficult to use crispr to treat it it's also being used to research and test treatments for cancer and liver disease among others crispr is it just for humans scientists are already editing mosquitoes Gino's hoping to stop the transmission of deadly diseases like malaria and the potential of engineering microbes may open the door to a new world medical and technological advances when you can edit CNAs blueprint the possibilities are vast

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