Recently, the scientific world had witnessed a revolution in genetics - CRISPR. Also known as the “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” CRISPR (pronounced “crisper”) in used in the process of splicing parts of the human genome in order to check and correct genetic errors and defects. As stated by Jennifer Doudna, a chemistry and molecular and cell biology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, “It is enabling the sorts of genetic modifications that in the past have really been a dream.” Researchers have concluded that CRISPR may be beneficial in fixing the genetic mistakes that cause diseases such as Huntington’s and sickle-cell anemia. Yet, what’s better is the fact that CRISPR has the potential to permanently fix these errors in the gene. Scientists have also discovered that the technique may give hints as to better understanding more genetically complicated disorders, such as autism, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease.
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In a certain dairy industry, producers found that the bacteria of the milk manufactured for yogurt would be invaded by occasional viruses. These viruses would enter the bacteria by putting themselves into the genome of the bacteria. Yet, the producers found that later, the bacteria was able to develop methods of shielding themselves against the viruses by allowing other benign viruses into their genome. This would allow for the bacteria to later come up with ways to prevent the harmful viruses from impacting their genome. Researchers later found that this information formed the basis of the development of a gene splicing technique. They decided to add spacer DNA that matched that of the virus. In 2012, Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier of Germany’s Hanover Medical School, presented their findings and came up with an
In a certain dairy industry, producers found that the bacteria of the milk manufactured for yogurt would be invaded by occasional viruses. These viruses would enter the bacteria by putting themselves into the genome of the bacteria. Yet, the producers found that later, the bacteria was able to develop methods of shielding themselves against the viruses by allowing other benign viruses into their genome. This would allow for the bacteria to later come up with ways to prevent the harmful viruses from impacting their genome. Researchers later found that this information formed the basis of the development of a gene splicing technique. They decided to add spacer DNA that matched that of the virus. In 2012, Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier of Germany’s Hanover Medical School, presented their findings and came up with an