CRISPR gene editing turns 10. How’s it transforming medicine and more?

Medical innovations typically take 17 years from the time a lightbulb goes off in a scientist’s head until the first person benefits.

But every once in a while, an idea is so powerful and so profound its effects are felt much faster.

That’s been the case with CRISPR gene editing, which celebrates a 10th anniversary this month. It has already had a substantial impact on laboratory science, improving precision and speeding research, and it has led to clinical trials for a handful of rare diseases and cancers.

Over the next decade, scientists predict, CRISPR will yield multiple approved medical treatments and be used to modify crops, making them more productive and resistant to disease and climate change.



Source: Google News

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