<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Tara Maya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div> Third - If neither of your parents has the “optimum” gene for a certain spot, but another relative… or another donor, related or not … has the gene… or it can be made directly (I don’t know the tech involved), then why not add it? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### CRISPR can easily put in anything that is small enough to fit into a guide RNA but with DNA-based inserts you can put multi-kilobase stretches of DNA. Generally, anything you know the sequence of and up to a few thousand base pairs in length can be synthesized in the lab and should be deliverable.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał</div></div>
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