Catching up with CRISPR, the Swiss army knife of gene editing

CRISPR is having a moment.

This week the gene editing system was declared the “Breakthrough of the Year” by editors of the journal Science. A day earlier, Nature named the Chinese researcher Junjiu Huang one of the 10 people who mattered in 2015 for being the first to use the CRISPR system to edit...

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