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Feb 2019
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The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enrique...

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Gene-editing tools like CRISPR enable us to program life at its most fundamental level. But this raises some pressing questions: If we can generate new species from scratch, what should we build? Should we redesign humanity as we know it?JuanEnriquezforecasts the possible futures of genetic editing, exploring the immense uncertainty and opportunity of this next frontier.



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