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welcome to tech news briefing it's friday nove November 22nd. I'm Belle Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

CRISPR, the groundbreaking gene editing tool that earned its developers a Nobel Prize, is coming for your veggies.

And if you like sugar like me, you'll be happy about it.

We'll find out when these souped up vegetables might hit grocery stores.

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But first, plant biologists in China have used CRISPR, the tool that has been deployed to treat sickle cell disease to engineer sweeter tomatoes.

It's part of a trend toward using the tool to make foods more

appealing to consumers rather than farmers or nutritionists. For more on how biologists made the

breakthrough and what other fruits and veggies are getting tastier, we're joined by WSJ reporter

Needy Suburamen. So, Needy, what exactly did plant biologists in China do two tomatoes using CRISPR?

Researchers in China zoomed in on two related genes that they found controlled sweetness

in a tomato as it ripens. And when they neatly snipped out a portion

of those genes, they found that the tomatoes got sweeter. Now, this is a puzzle that is

confounded agricultural people for some time, that as we've cultivated tomatoes to be bigger, they actually got

less sweet. They got blander. There are some species of wild tomato that are the size of peas or

the size of cherries. And they started out tiny. And they apparently taste a lot sweeter. So the puzzle

has been, how do we have large tomatoes that we can sell that taste like they used to?

And these folks seem to have taken a step towards that.

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