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CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Technology
The advent of an extraordinary technological development, that is the ensuing mutation of hitherto unknown genes has been disastrous to animal and plant ecology. This advanced scientific technique, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Inter-Spaced Short Palindromic Repeats), has evolved from the fundamental molecular biology field and today it makes it possible to perform accurate editing of genes. Benefiting from these breakthroughs can be traced back to the know-how of DNA structure, mapped genomes, and espionage from genetic research over the decades. CRISPR-Cas9, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats together with CRISPR-associated protein 9, is an outstanding gene-editing technique characterized by its high precision. It allows scientists to make genetic modifications in living organisms in a way that they can determine the outcome precisely. This pioneering technology, on the other hand, was only inspired by the immune system mechanisms naturally embedded in bacteria and archaea, which mainly employ RNA-CRISPR and various other Cas proteins, including Cas9, to fight against the virus and other external enemies.
Through CRISPR-Cas9 scientists are able, to some extent to edit genes directly in DNA and remove unwanted parts with accuracy and efficiency exceeding any alteration method known so far. It will revolutionize CRISPR-Cas9 is one of the cornerstone technologies of the medical breakthrough that simultaneously causes a regional potential of ethical issues and unprecedented unintended consequences. This nascent science at the same time displays tremendous hope regarding treating such conditions as well as increasing crop yields and raises some big ethical dilemmas that involve the dilemmas of the ethics of human destruction of nature. Identifying and governing these opportunities as well as issues are imperative for realizing the social relevance and benefit of CRISPR application.
The ways that are carried out in medical operations, agriculture in addition to even bioethics. In the realm of healthcare, CRISPRs are also capable of handling genetic diseases by either repairing or substitution the error strands in genes. In agriculture, it can be used to create better quality crops such as those with high pest resistance and who can perform in new environments. Nonetheless, ethical considerations of gene editing entail uncertainty about unexpected outcomes as well as the dangers of designer babies hence the talk and guidelines are strange topics to the world.
Works Cited
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Mei, Yue, et al. "Recent progress in CRISPR/Cas9 technology." Journal of Genetics and Genomics 43.2 (2016): 63-75.