Research Links

Below I will list the following links that I used to conduct my research for this project.  Under each link I will write a brief description of what the article was about.

1) http://medicalfuturist.com/what-could-crisprcas9-do-tomorrow/
In the medical futurist article above, they ask the question what can CRISPR due tomorrow. It follows up with 5 scenarios in which what CRISPR can tackle, such as HIV, drugs, super plants, designer baby and then eternal youth. This article goes in depth on hypotheticals that CRISPR can solve and then eventually boosting overall human health.

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Above, the article dives into what CRISPR will cost and what it will do to the costs of gene therapy. The article talks about how CRISPR will dramatically cut the costs of gene therapy. With the use of CRISPR, and its low costs, it will lead to CRISPR being used in standardized medicine.

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The link above is directly from the National Human Genome Research Institute. This webpage is focused on the topic of the ethical concerns of genome editing. The main ethical topics are safety, informed consent, justice and equality, and genome-editing research involving embryos. While the website raises these ethical concerns, it says it remains unbiased. That the reason they posted these ethical concerns is due to the fact that there needs to be a public discussion on the topic of gene editing.

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The title of the link above is pretty self explanatory. It is just a timeline regarding all the discoveries and new uses of CRISPR from its finding to present day.

5) https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609203/crispr-20-is-here-and-its-way-more-precise/


The article above talks about CRISPR 2.0 and what it has been used for. It references two studies that were published by Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard which talk about a new way of editing DNA and RNA, which is called base editing. The studies talk about how the changed CRISPR to target just a single base, hence the name. The scientist in the studies used the new technology on sickle-cell anemia and hemochromatosis.

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In the wired article, it talks about a recent panel that was put on by Berkeley. Berkeley welcomed 300 people, who ranged from, scientists, CEOs, farmers, regulators, conservationists and interested citizens. The article talks about how each specialist would use CRISPR to their advantage and benefit their specific field. But importantly they talked about where CRISPR was used wrong in the past and how they can use it correctly.

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The Scientific American article above is a personal story from Annie Sneed and her interactions with CRISPR. She talks about what CRISPR is and her experience using it at home herself. She then travels to Cal Berkeley to see what scientist there are doing with CRISPR for DIY scientist. Pretty much CRISPR is making it very cheap for people at home to. She ends her article posts on her concerns with CRISPR. One of her concerns was with biohackers. But she talks about how she raised this concern with the scientists she met with earlier. They say that the possibility is not zero, but it is extremely small.








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