Recent waves of controversies surrounding genetic engineering have spilled into popular science in Twitter battles between reputable scientists and their followers. Here, a cautionary perspective on the possible blind spots and risks of CRISPR and related biotechnologies is presented, focusing in particular on the stochastic nature of cellular control processes.
Keywords: CRISPR; biotechnology; gene regulatory networks; genetic editing; noise; nonlinear dynamics; stochasticity.
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