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Google and Bill Gates want to edit your genome

Charlee Gothard

Charlee Gothard

11 August 2015 • 1 min read

Silicon Valley mega-firms invest in precision gene splicing start-up

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Google Ventures have joined a $120m funding round for Editas Medicine Inc, a company that wants to develop a technology to edit DNA with precision, with the idea of...

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