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Falling giants and the rise of gene editing: ethics, private interests and the public good.

Hum Genomics · 2017 · PMC5575847 · PMID 28851444

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However, from the observation that clustered repeats might be significant, to CRISPR’s sensational harnessing and refining, it involved, as with nearly all other discoveries, many scientists, working for many years on many topics [ 36 ]; CRISPR’s discovery, therefore, is contentious in respect to the ‘giants’ metaphor.

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