How will CRISPR Gene Editing Revolutionize Our Future?
We are on the verge of a health and gene editing revolution. CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (yes, complicated, but beautiful), a segment of DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences, is involved in the defense mechanisms of prokaryotic organisms to viruses. More simply, if we think of our genes as Google documents, then, with the CRISPR technology, we will be able to edit the document to change the features of the file, which is our DNA. So, what does the future hold? The possibilities are endless.
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5 min readOct 7, 2021
CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful technology discovered in 2012 by American scientist Jennifer Doudna, French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, and colleagues and refined by American scientist Feng Zhang and colleagues.
What is CRISPR?
According to Science News, scientifically speaking, CRISPR/Cas9 in its original form is a homing device (the CRISPR part) that guides…
