3 results for “CRISPR gene editing”

🧬 Biology & Medicine Master's

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Mechanisms, Applications and Governance

CRISPR-Cas9 reduced the cost of targeted genome editing by orders of magnitude, which turned a technical question into a governance question almost overnight. This paper explains the underlying mechanism, surveys therapeutic applications now in trials, and analyses why the somatic/germline distinction has held as the primary regulatory boundary despite sustained pressure on it.

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📚 Literature & History Master's

Postcolonial Readings of Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

Nineteenth-century travel writing produced the imperial periphery as an object of knowledge at the same time as it claimed merely to describe it. This essay applies postcolonial critical method to a selection of Victorian travel narratives, and argues that the genre's characteristic rhetorical move — the shift from observation to generalisation — is where its ideological work is done.

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⚙️ Engineering Undergraduate

Renewable Energy Integration and Grid Stability Challenges

High renewable penetration destabilises grids not primarily through intermittency but through the loss of rotational inertia that synchronous generators once provided. This report explains the physics of that problem, surveys the mitigation options — synthetic inertia, storage, demand response — and assesses their relative maturity.

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