I understand how DNA works and the concept of changing it. my question is in the logistics of it. DNA is located in the nucleus of every single cell in your body, so how do you change it in every single cell of the organism. New cells also come from mitosis, so its not like you can change some “factory” of cells to produce the newly designed dna.
or is it only possible to change the dna of a “developing” body in it’s early stages, where its only a single/couple of cells?
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You do not change the genes of the entire organism. Genoem editing only work on one cell at a time. This means that you can only modify the genes of an egg or seed and then grow the full organism from this one single cell. But you can not edit the genes in an existing organism.
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