Sofia Science Festival 2020: Edit destiny
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There are more than 75,000 changes in DNA that can cause genetic disease. For the first time in our evolutionary history, we have the chance to correct these changes, and this is perhaps the most crucial moment in human history. Editing the book on life - from endonucleases to CRISPR Prime editing - is considered by Dr. Petar Eftimov, lecturer in embryology and developmental biology at the Faculty of Biology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski", veterinarian and molecular biologist, winner of the competition for communication science FameLab 2016 and a master storyteller about the world as it is and as it could be.
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