BLUF: Pairwise, an agricultural biotechnology company, has created the first CRISPR-edited food available to US consumers, Conscious Greens Purple Power Baby Greens Blend, by editing mustard greens’ DNA to remove the gene that gives them their pungent flavor to create a new category of salad, although using CRISPR in human cell lines increased the risk of large rearrangements of DNA that could increase cancer risk, and the company’s claims of boosting Americans’ nutritional intake are unlikely to succeed.
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