FOXNEWS Fox News Reporting October 22, 2019 19:49:00
The new technique in a lab to fix genes that cause to diseases including sickle cell anemia. the breakthrough builds on an existing method to edit dna called chris burke. except researcher will say that it is a lot more precise. jonathan reporting with more on this. >> very exciting, it is called prime editing, and it may offer a more precise way of correcting dna than current methods. instead of cutting both strands of dna at the same time like a scissors, the prime editor nips one side and inserts an edited sequence. then the tool nips at the other side and the cell corrects itself with the ...