CRISPR TECHNOLOGY:

                     CRISPR TECHNOLOGY                     

CONTEXT:- 

For the first time, four LIZARDS have been genetically modified using the CRISPR - CAS9 gene editing tools.

ABOUT CRISPR:- 

# The clustered, regularly interspaces, short palindromic repeats, or CRISPR/CRISPR -associated protein 9 (CAS9).

# (CRISPR-CAS9) system has revolutionised genetic manipulation and made gene editing simpler, faster and easily accessible to most laboratories.

# It's many potential applications include correcting genetic defects treating and preventing the spread of disease and improving crops.

# CRISPR-CAS9 technology behaves like a cut-and-paste mechanism on DNA strand that contain genetic information.

# The specific location of the genetic codes that need to be changed, or "edited" us identified on the DNA strand, and then, using the CAS9 Protein, which acts like a pair of scissors, that location is cut off from the strand.

# a DNA strand, when broken, has a natural tendency to repair itself.