How to Use gene editing in a Sentence

gene editing

noun
  • So far, the gene editing did not seem to affect the health of the chickens.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
  • So, in the new study, researchers turned to gene editing.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But gene editing may not be a fix-all for farmed catfish.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The team used gene editing to dial down the use of around 300 low-scoring genes found in both humans and fruit flies.
    WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That’s the question a horde of gene editing researchers are chasing.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
  • His announcement in 2018 sparked a global debate over the ethics of gene editing.
    STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Others agree that these computer vision tools are the missing piece to track the effects of gene editing in the lab.
    Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
  • What prompted you to mention gene editing and AI in your first public remarks in this role?
    Khari Johnson, Wired, 29 June 2021
  • A lot of the discussion about the possibilities of gene editing are still to do with things that are way off in the future.
    David Marchese, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • All this depends on success and safety of the gene editing and on its effects lasting.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The project also involves gene editing — in this case, from the closest living relative of the tigers, the numbat.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • That’s because a lot has changed since the first gene editing pioneers filed the original Crispr-Cas9 patents.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Mar. 2021
  • That little enzyme powered all the promise of Crispr gene editing, and the stakes for owning it couldn’t have been higher.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Sulis and his colleagues have made the first successful attempt to use gene editing to streamline the process of wood fiber production.
    Popular Science, 13 July 2023
  • Besides gene editing, there are other ways to reduce the Fel d 1 protein in felines.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The imprisoned viruses could then be excised from cells with gene editing.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
  • In response, Berg halted his own research and helped draft a moratorium on gene editing in the 1970s.
    John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Those ought to be candidates for this kind of in-vivo gene editing strategy.
    Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The future of human/cat allergy treatment may be in found in cat food, vaccines or gene editing.
    Stacey Burling, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Despite the focus on somatic gene editing, the summit, the last in a series of three, could not avoid the shadow of He’s experiment.
    Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But no one has ever used gene editing to lower cholesterol in people before.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • For that reason, Mitalipov has moved on to other methods for gene editing.
    Stephen S. Hall, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The ability to use animal organs — aided by advances in cloning and gene editing — would change that.
    Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • And Urnov envisions a day when even complex diseases like heart disease can be avoided with gene editing.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Church has been talking about de-extincting the mammoth for a number of years, spurred in part by developments in gene editing.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, the company is altering genes that already exist in the plants through gene editing.
    Lana Bandoim, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • This includes paying out of pocket for risky new therapies, like gene editing.
    Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • With the advent of the gene editing technology Crispr, these are now also conceivable.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, Wired, 13 Mar. 2021
  • To truly take advantage of the potential for gene editing, the genome must first be sequenced, something that has not happened with the quagga mussel.
    Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In this way, gene editing could deliver some drastic leaps forward in the fight against disease – in humans, animals, and crops.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022

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