CRSPR Gene Editing Tools Reach Maturity

An artist's depiction of the CRISPR system in action. Illustration by Stephen Dixon

CRISPR-Cas9 harnessed for genome editing
January, 2013 — Feng Zhang, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Massachusetts

After almost two decades of development this powerful system of gene editing has become commercially viable opening doors to advances and controversies

An artist’s depiction of the CRISPR system in action.
Illustration by Stephen Dixon