Warning! Helpful CRISPR Could Cause Cancer!
Warning! Helpful CRISPR Could Cause Cancer! June 11, 2018 You know already about the promise for CRISPR-Cas9 — it might revolutionize fields from medicine to agriculture. It might also eventually cause tumors. That’s the takeaway from two new studies, published Monday in Nature Medicine. Both studies, one by Novartis and the other by the Karolinska Institute, focus on the gene p53, known to play a…