Did a Swedish researcher eat the first CRISPR meal ever served?
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From Science, By Jon Cohen Sep. 7, 2016
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/did-swedish-researcher-eat-first-crispr-meal-ever-served
In what Swedish plant scientist Stefan Jansson declares “maybe” a historic event, he cultivated, grew, and ate a plant that had its genome edited with CRISPR-Cas9.…
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