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CRISPR gene editing originated in bacterial immune systems
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Before humans used it to play God with designer biology, CRISPR was just microscopic organisms fighting off cold viruses. This revolutionary gene-splicing tool is literally just a primitive immune system that bacteria use to chop up invading viral DNA. We didn't invent a futuristic genetic scalpel; we just hijacked a billion-year-old turf war.
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