How far will CRISPR change our lives and our species?

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Cover of Aline Richard's book, "La Saga Crispr", published by Flammarion.

© EditionsFlammarion

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

A genetic revolution is underway with CRispR.

How can this tool, real DNA scissors, change our lives and even our human species for better or for worse?  

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Let us ask ourselves about a genetic revolution underway that could well change our lives and even our human species: CRISPR technology, a kind of bio-inspired DNA scissors that make it possible to repair, shape and modify living things, but up to what point ?

For the best of therapeutic care or for the worst of eugenics?

Everything is now possible (or almost) thanks to this innovative and inexpensive technology which has won nothing less than the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to the researchers who invented it;

Are we ready for the best of all worlds according to crispR?

With journalist

for her book 

, published by Flammarion. 

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