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. 2017 May 8;15(1):37.
doi: 10.1186/s12915-017-0378-2.

Can a biologist fix a smartphone?-Just hack it!

Sophien Kamoun  1
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Can a biologist fix a smartphone?-Just hack it!

Sophien Kamoun. BMC Biol. .

Abstract

Biological systems integrate multiscale processes and networks and are, therefore, viewed as difficult to dissect. However, because of the clear-cut separation between the software code (the information encoded in the genome sequence) and hardware (organism), genome editors can operate as software engineers to hack biological systems without any particularly deep understanding of the complexity of the systems.

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