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Re:Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really... by dekhn on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @04:09PM (#10809081)
The difference is that antibiotics weren't a tool to make more discoveries. They were an immediately applicable medical breakthrough (which also happens to be a useful tool, for example as a genetic marker). CRISPR/Cas9 is just a tool, not an immediately applicable therapy.
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