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Chronic Pain is a very debilitating disease.

Although it effects many people around the world, not many cures have been found.

However, one solution might be genomics using

GENE EDITING.

LEARN ABOUT THE VARIOUS ISSUES OF GENE EDITING AND ITS EFFECTS.

ETHICAL, LEGAL, AND SOCIAL ISSUES

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BENEFITS VS HARMS

LEARN ABOUT THE BENEFITS AND HARMS OF GENE EDITING.

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LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS ABOUT GENES, CHRONIC PAIN, AND THE CRISPR-CAS9 SYSTEM.

BACKGROUND

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INNOVATORS

LEARN ABOUT THE DIFFERENT COMPANIES WHICH SELL OR USE THE CRISPR-CAS9 SYSTEM. 

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TIMELINE

LEARN ABOUT THE GREAT HISTORICAL ADVANCES OF GENES AND GENE EDITING OVER THE PAST FEW CENTURIES.

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REFERENCES

EXPLORE MORE INFORMATION ON GENE EDITING AND CHRONIC PAIN.

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One of the most recent Gene Editor is CRISPR-Cas9
It is popular because it is cheap and fast unlike its predecessors.
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CRISPR stands for
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
They are segments of DNA that repeat at short intervals and are palindromic.
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About 100 million people suffer from Chronic Pain in United States.

This has caused a huge expense for the economy in terms of lost work hours and high medical expense on opioid use.

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Latest News On Twitter About CRISPR

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TED talk by JENNIFER DOUDNA: CRISPR-CAS9

CONTACT

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