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by redwheelbarrow 2833 days ago
CRISPR fears are really overrated. It is nowhere near as mature as it needs to be. Further, you're less likely to make anything useful with it and more likely to just kill the organism you are trying to create. I work in a biotech lab, and we hardly ever use it and instead opt for manual plasmid knock in/down or tissue engineering techniques instead. The extent of work you have to put in to actually get something useful from CRISPER is prohibitive of it being used to target you and I.