CRISPR is capable of more than we initially expected
What does 14 years of gene editing actually add up to? Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who co-invented CRISPR, walks through the full arc of the technology she helped create. She covers the FDA-approved, functionally curative — but $2 million — CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease, efforts to reduce methane emissions from cattle and rice farming, and the ongoing ethical…
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