Скачать или смотреть CRISPR: The Future of Gene Editing

Baking a cake? You’ll need a recipe. Constructing a skyscraper? That’ll require a blueprint. But building a human being? Well, that’ll require the most complex instructions of all: DNA.

Anyone with the good taste to have seen Jurassic Park at least once will be familiar with Mr. DNA. What might surprise you, however, is that the gene editing research he references has been a fairly slow area for breakthroughs. Until recently, that is…

In 2020, scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on a technology known as CRISPR-Cas9: essentially an easy-to-use pair of ‘genetic scissors’ capable of targeting and cutting any specific sequence within DNA. A sort of “find and replace” function, that has already enjoyed considerable success in treating sickle-cell anemia and could open an unimaginable number of doors in the future. That’s no mean feat when you consider a single strand of DNA contains around three billion letters!

Find out why CRISPR could represent the future of gene editing in this explainer video from iluli by Mike Lamb – explaining the ideas and innovations changing our lives.

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Sources and Further Reading:

• Genetics Unzipped: A Brief History of CRISPR and How We Learned to Edit the Genome: https://geneticsunzipped.com/blog/202...
• Clear & Vivid: Jennifer Doudna and the Power of CRISPR: https://omny.fm/shows/clear-vivid-wit...
• The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

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0:00 Introduction
1:22 DNA basics
2:42 CRISPR
4:08 Potential uses
4:46 Conclusion