"For the first time, scientists gene-hacked an animal’s stem cells — without removing them.
Normally, altering a stem cell with CRISPR requires extracting it, keeping it alive in a lab setting, and hoping that the edit takes after re-inserting it into the body. But now Harvard scientists have found a way to skip that process, according to research published in the journal Cell Reports. Their new technique alters the genomes of stem cells in a mouse’s body — and spreads the edits throughout the creature’s body as cells reproduce..."
at https://futurism.com/the-byte/harvard-gene-hacked-stem-cells-living-organism
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