Comment on What do you consider the most interesting scientific news?Comments−TeMPOraL10yWow. Some of these are really interesting and I've completely missed them. For example:http://edge.org/response-detail/26769TL;DR: forcing homozygosity through applying CRISPR to hack DNA repair = a way to spread any gene quickly throughout an entire population of sexually reproducing (fast enough) organisms. Apparently it's demonstrated to work.−effie10yThe article says it is due to forcing homozygosity...−TeMPOraL10yMy mistake, thanks for catching it! Edited the comment.This is a difficult term for me to spell so I just copy-pasted it from the article... and accidentally selected the wrong word.
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Wow. Some of these are really interesting and I've completely missed them. For example:
http://edge.org/response-detail/26769
TL;DR: forcing homozygosity through applying CRISPR to hack DNA repair = a way to spread any gene quickly throughout an entire population of sexually reproducing (fast enough) organisms. Apparently it's demonstrated to work.
The article says it is due to forcing homozygosity...
My mistake, thanks for catching it! Edited the comment.
This is a difficult term for me to spell so I just copy-pasted it from the article... and accidentally selected the wrong word.