Finite verbs

No, and that is not a complete sentence, either. It is a fragment. Perhaps you could attach it to the sentence that precedes it, or you could use a verb for your subject as I will demonstrate below.

The idea is to eliminate the harmful effect by correcting the genetic code back to a healthy version.

This is the sentence as it is from an informal blog and I need to identify clause boundaries:
The first is from a research project at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, where techniques are being developed to edit specific sites in the mitochondrial genome where harmful mutations exist. The idea being to eliminate the harmful effect by correcting the genetic code back to a healt

ZBH The idea being to eliminate the harmful effect by correcting the genetic code back to a healthy version.

This is not a comlete sentence. There is no finite verb there,

Thank you x

Englishmaven, if I emailed you my analysis for linguistic features of an article, would you be able to check it for me?
If it's okay, can you just email me at Email Removed so I can send over?
I've just read your profile! I'm an aspiring English teacher and looking forward to doing my CELTA too!

The website automatically deletes email addresses in posts to keep them out of the hands of scammers and spammers. You can put your contact information in your profile, or share it via Private Message if the member you wish to share with has private messaging enabled in his or her settings (go to their profile, and look for "Start private conversation" under "Actions" on the right ha

Oh dear, they don't have it enabled. Never mind. Thank you.

By the way, I don't know how Englishmaven feels about answering privately, but many of the members who post replies here are not willing to provide private help, or are only willing to answer privately as a paid service.

I don't mind paying for the services
Even if it's not on here, is anyone can direct me elsewhere.
Thanks

You could try Mister Micawber. He offers a proofreading service.