World CRISPR Day – October 20, 2022, history, significance, We celebrate World CRISPR Day on October 20 every year. It is a day to discuss the technological implications and practical application of the technology that is revolutionizing the treatment of genetic conditions. CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat, is a technology that edits genes by finding specific bits of DNA inside a cell. Once the DNA is identified, it proceeds to alter a piece of it or to turn genes on or off. The holiday started in…
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