Inspiration For African Science Policy On Building Next Gen Of Physician-Scientists From The Success Of Crispr Gene Editing tool, Prime Editing – A System That’s Touted As Capable Of Fixing Almost All Genetic Diseases
On the 21st of October 2019, news filtered of another promising addition to the ever expanding library of Crispr gene editing tools. Prestigious science journal Nature published a paper titled: Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA. In the paper we are introduced to a new system of gene editing called “prime editor” …