CRISPR and Nobel Prizes on The Future, This Week
This week: we finally discuss gene editing and CRISPR, as the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes the women behind its development.
Why the ‘molecular scissors’ metaphor for understanding CRISPR is misleading
The idea of CRISPR as scissors ignores an entire ecosystem of moving parts that are crucial for understanding the awe-inspiring, crazy thing scientists are trying to do when they attempt gene editing.