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Emerging gene-editing technology is primed to turn the scientific community into an army of Victor Frankensteins.

A three-year-old technique called CRISPR has experts in genetics and genomics saying the world is on the precipice of revolution.

“We’re basically able to have a molecular scalpel for genomes,” biologist Jennifer Doudna told Tech Insider on Wednesday. “All the technologies in the past were sort of like sledgehammers. … This just gives scientists the capability do something that is incredibly powerful.”

Doudna is credited with being one of the co-discoverers of CRISPR, or “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.”

“Most of the public does not appreciate what is coming,” Doudna told MIT Technology Review in March.

Wired magazine warned of the ethical problems posed by CRISPR in July’s “Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up.”

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