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The Discovery of CRISPR and Gene Editing
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The book explores the discovery of CRISPR, a natural phenomenon in bacteria, and how it eventually became a tool for gene editing. It highlights some of the scientists involved and how they would have related to historical figures like Ben Franklin.
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