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Some are nicknamed jumping genes because they literally jump around, copying and pasting themselves into different parts of our genome just as if they were still viral invaders.

There is hope in senior circles that the review, together with big infrastructure plans, can be used to create a summer of good news, after many months of taking a pasting.

Yet, he’s pathetic at maintaining order, pasting a misspelled sign on his police car that reads: Your being manipulated.

When the Conservatives last took an almighty pasting at a general election, in 1997, it took them 13 years and four leaders to make it back to power.

When first developed, gene editing was less like cutting and pasting genes and more like sending in a drone that can hit or miss its target – a piece of DNA.