“…Human gene editing is regulated by strict ethical norms and currently undergoes scientific, philosophical, and political discussion [ 22 , 23 ]; however, in principle, it is executable. Besides the mammals, also genome of reptiles [ 24 ], amphibians ( Xenopus laevis and X. tropicalis ) [ 25 , 26 ], fish ( Danio rerio , Oryzias latipes ) [ 26 – 28 ], insects ( Drosophila melanogaster , mosquitoes) [ 29 , 30 ], worms ( Caenorhabditis elegans ) [ 31 , 32 ], plants [ 33 – 35 ], fungi [ 36 , 37 ], bacteria [ 38 ], and viruses [ 39 ] can be edited by CRISPR/Cas9. Paradoxically, using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology is not as common in bacteria as in other organisms, likely because other methods based on homologous recombination were already available for efficient manipulation of their genomes [ 40 ].…”