University of New South Wales Aug 17 2025 A new generation of CRISPR technology developed at UNSW Sydney offers a safer path to treating genetic diseases like Sickle Cell, while also proving beyond doubt that chemical tags on DNA - often thought to be little more than genetic cobwebs - actively silence genes. For decades, scientists have debated whether methyl groups - small chemical clusters that accumulate on DNA - are simply detritus that accumulates in the genome where genes are turned off,

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