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magneticnorth on Dec 16, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What have been the biggest technical achie...

The use of CRISPR-Cas9 for gene editing has the potential to be one of the most important technical advancements we've discovered this decade. One of the first major papers on it, from 2012: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22745249

Engineering-MD on Dec 16, 2019 [–]

I would second this. CRISPR is a potentially hugely influential tool which has massively changed research already, allowing production of novel strains much more cheaply. Not to mention the possibility for in Vivo genetic editing. I would say is the biggest technical advancement in genetics ever.

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