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A New Gene Editing Tool Could Rival CRISPR, and Makes Millions of Edits at Once
With CRISPR's meteoric rise as a gene editing marvel, it's easy to forget its lowly origins: it was first discovered as a quirk of the bacterial immune system. It seems that bacteria have more to offer. This month, a team led by the famed synthetic biologist Dr. George Church at Harvard University hijacked another strange piece of bacteria biology.
https://singularityhub.com/2021/05/11/a-new-gene-editing-tool-rivals-crispr-and-can-make-millions-of-edits-at-once/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
How Scientists Managed to Film the Ocean's Largest and Shyest Deep-Sea Squids
Although you have probably heard of deep-sea squids, it's unlikely you have seen these large and very shy creatures. This is because these animals have very large eyes (about the size of a basketball) that cause them to spot any upcoming submersible that is trying to film them in action.
https://interestingengineering.com/how-scientists-managed-to-film-the-oceans-largest-and-shyest-deep-sea-squids?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
