Elizabeth Theiss Smith

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A small segment of DNA that encodes a gene is transcribed into a snippet of RNA, which then travels to the manufacturing region of the cell. There this “messenger RNA” facilitates the assembly of the proper sequence of amino acids to make a specified protein.
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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