How to Use gene editing in a Sentence

gene editing

noun
  • This is not to say that gene editing cannot do similar things.
    — Fyodor Urnov, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
  • So far, the gene editing did not seem to affect the health of the chickens.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
  • That’s the question a horde of gene editing researchers are chasing.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 July 2023
  • There is also concern that gene editing for health reasons will be out of reach for many because of its cost.
    — Katie Hafner, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
  • All this depends on success and safety of the gene editing and on its effects lasting.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Wu’s team is just beginning to look into gene editing as a way to further improve their crops.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Sep. 2024
  • But no one has ever used gene editing to lower cholesterol in people before.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Those ought to be candidates for this kind of in-vivo gene editing strategy.
    — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Of course, even if gene editing works, applying it to young people with heart risk is well into the future.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Vor has figured out a way to delete that protein from healthy cells through gene editing so that only cancerous cells are killed.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The future of human/cat allergy treatment may be in found in cat food, vaccines or gene editing.
    — Stacey Burling, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Others agree that these computer vision tools are the missing piece to track the effects of gene editing in the lab.
    — Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Many questions still remain about using gene editing to lower cholesterol.
    — David Cox, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The team used gene editing to dial down the use of around 300 low-scoring genes found in both humans and fruit flies.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • What prompted you to mention gene editing and AI in your first public remarks in this role?
    — Khari Johnson, Wired, 29 June 2021
  • A lot of the discussion about the possibilities of gene editing are still to do with things that are way off in the future.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Pivot uses gene editing to keep the enzymes turned on and working at maximum volume.
    — Charlotte Hu, Time, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Besides gene editing, there are other ways to reduce the Fel d 1 protein in felines.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • His announcement in 2018 sparked a global debate over the ethics of gene editing.
    — STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Sulis and his colleagues have made the first successful attempt to use gene editing to streamline the process of wood fiber production.
    — Popular Science, 13 July 2023
  • What is the future of gene editing with CRISPR?
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2026
  • The project also involves gene editing — in this case, from the closest living relative of the tigers, the numbat.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The gene editing system will recognize the normal DNA and make a cut in it.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2018
  • But nobody's going to argue that the gene editing wasn't destined for a Nobel Prize.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2020
  • That little enzyme powered all the promise of Crispr gene editing, and the stakes for owning it couldn’t have been higher.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Mar. 2021
  • And for details about Prime Medicine’s plans to seek approval for a gene editing treatment tested in two people, go here.
    — Elaine Chen, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026
  • While the minority would be expected to have all three genes edited, the populations that respond best tend to live longer in the body.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2020
  • That’s because a lot has changed since the first gene editing pioneers filed the original Crispr-Cas9 patents.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Patrick Hsu, co-founder of the Arc Institute, explained that this allows for a more complex kind of gene editing.
    — Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Urnov, who’s worked with gene editing for more than a decade, has similar worries, especially about the X-Files episode.
    — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2018

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