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CX Daily: China Races to Build Its Own Gene-Editing Toolkit — With an AI Assist

Published: Aug. 27, 2026 11:32 a.m. GMT+8

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In a lab in Changzhou, an industrial city in eastern China, researchers at agritech startup Wimi Biotechnology Co. Ltd. are doing something that sounds almost too simple: they “cut” a single stretch of corn DNA, let the plant repair itself, and wait to see what new trait emerges — higher yield, a shorter stalk, less water in the kernel.

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