A BRIEF HISTORY OF GENE EDITING
A timeline showing our progress in understanding and modifying genomes.
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HOW IT WORKS
Genomes have target sites with performance variables scattered all over.
Targetting these sites can modify the variable value.
LIMITATIONS
As performance variables are scattered across target sites, affecting one affects all others.
This makes fine tuning a challenge.