“
CRISPR
-edited foods
are already starting to hit the market
,” notes Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in her article in
Science
tracing the first decade of the genome-editing technology she co-developed.
She has in mind a variety of tomatoes whose nutritional qualities have been improved, as well as two species of fish: a sea bream producing more flesh, and a puffer fish with accelerated growth, all three authorized for sale in Japan.
"For their part, the United States are imagining applications for livestock farming, such as cows without horns, to prevent them from injuring themselves, or pigs with more developed muscles"
, explains Éric Pailhoux, research director at Inrae.
Confined laboratory
The future should also see an improvement in the technique of multiplex editing, which makes it possible to intervene on several sites of the genome at the same time, in particular in plants, underlines Jennifer Doudna.
With, in sight, an improvement of…
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