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CRISPR 'Barcodes' Map Mammalian Development in Exquisite Detail


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Mouse embryo

Researchers have used gene-editing to track the cell-by-cell development of a mouse embryo.

Credit: Agnieszka Jedrusik and Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Gurdon Institute

For the first time, scientists have wielded CRISPR to track a mammal's development from a single egg into an embryo with millions of cells.

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