Crispr-cas9
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The Quiet Revolution of CRISPR
CRISPR’s not on the cusp of anything.Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . How many diseases could humans treat if the DNA in troublesome cells could be edited within the body? Half? Most? How about “absolutely everything”? That was the answer Irina Conboy, a bioengineer at U.C. Berkeley, recently […] -
The Unbearable Weirdness of CRISPR
How the genome of a salt-loving microbe led to a world-changing technology. -
Gene Editing Must Reckon With the Unforeseen
Almost exactly a year ago, I attended the International Summit of Human Gene Editing at the National Academy of Sciences. It was organized in part by Jennifer Doudna, arguably one of the inventors of Crispr-Cas9. It’s a new biotech tool—cheap, easy to use, and reliable—that allows thousands of scientists around the world to modify genes […]