1. ... ____ you were alive back in the 1980's, and were told that computers would soon ____ everything ... 2. ... Through selective ____, we strengthened useful ____ in plants and animals. ... 3. As soon as DNA was discovered, people tried to ____ it. 4. ... a tomato given a much longer shelf life where an extra gene that ____ the build-up of a rotting enzyme. 5. To treat maternal ____, babies were made that carried genetic information from 3 humans. 6. It's hard to ____ how big a technical revolution CRISPR is. 7. What's special is that CAS9 is very ____, almost like a DNA surgeon. 8. The revolution began when scientists ____ that the CRISPR system is programmable. 9. Only about a year later, they carried out a larger ____ project with rats... 10. ... viruses that hide inside human DNA like Herpes could be ____ this way.11. CRISPR gives us the ____ to edit your immune cells and make them better cancer hunters. 12. Getting ____ cancer might eventually mean getting just a couple of injections of a few thousand of your own cells that have been engineered in the lab to heal you ____. 13. Modified humans could ____ the genome of our entire species... 14. This is a ____. Modified humans could become the new standard. 15. ... but it is ____ the people alive today might be the first to profit from effective anti aging therapy. 16. As powerful as CRISPR is—and it is, it's not ____ yet.

Genetic Engineering 1a

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