Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna Sharpened Mother Nature’s Genetic Scissors and Won the Nobel for It
It sounds like science fiction — and until 2012, the ability to cheaply and easily edit strings of DNA was exactly that. But as it turns out, CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is a completely natural function in which bacteria catalogs its interactions with viruses by taking a snippet of the virus’ …read more