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The 7 Craziest Ways CRISPR Is Being Used Right Now

From turning pigs into organ donors to changing the color of flowers, the future of gene-editing tech is wacky and wonderful

Emily Mullin
OneZero
Published in
8 min readNov 1, 2018

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TThere are few modern-day scientific innovations with implications as profound as the gene-editing technology CRISPR, which…

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Emily Mullin
OneZero

Former staff writer at Medium, where I covered biotech, genetics, and Covid-19 for OneZero, Future Human, Elemental, and the Coronavirus Blog.