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It's a Wired article not an academic paper.

If you want context just google it.

Plenty of information exists for CRISPR and it is definitely substantive.

bcheung, I absolutely agree that CRISPR is substantive and even very exciting. But sloppy allusions to things far from fruition make me not like this particular article very much.

Not sure why you say far from fruition, those are things they have _already_ done. Even the AIDS one. http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130826/srep02510/full/srep02...

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