Tag: CRISPR hype

My understanding of CRISPR/Cas9 is simple: it’s a gene-editing tool that can change the DNA in the genome of an individual cell, like genomic search-and-replace, thereby modifying the cell before it performs its function(s), such as replication (cell division in non-neurons) and protein creation (gene expression). 2017-10-25 note: CRISPR/Cas13 operates on RNA instead of DNA,…