CRISPR
The technology, the results, the hope, and the drama
Intro
Background
Humans always interested in genetic engineering
Crops (banana), animals (dogs, fish)
Plasmids
Expensive, complicated, takes a long time
Who
Emmanuelle Charpentier
What
Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats
When
date
Why
How
Accomplishments
What problem were they trying to solve?
Whats been accomplished with it?
Milestones
How has it changed/shaped the field?
Drama
What are the ethical issues?
How do we prevent unethical applications?
Banning
Regulation
Protections
Hope (end on a happy note)
What are the potential applications in the future?
What is the next step/iteration?
Sources:
https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/project-spotlight/crispr-timeline
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5847661/
https://www.addgene.org/crispr/history/
Amid uproar, Chinese scientist defends creating gene-edited babies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879625715000425
