Methods for cutting DNA out of genomes were first developed in the late 1990s. They were useful because they enabled the very precise ‘knock-out’ of specific genes in order to study gene function. But they were relatively cumbersome and could only be used on one gene at a time. This changed with the arrival of genome-editing methods based on a type of bacterial DNA called CRISPR.
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