Thursday, October 8, 2020

CRISPR ONCE AGAIN


            Linda showing off an experimental hair-do

                      She ditched it ten minutes later

I have written many times of CRISPR and its use in gene editing.  I have told you that it is perhaps the most exciting new wrinkle in medical biology in a long, long time.  Well, I was right: its co-discoverers have just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  Here is Dr. Collins to tell you all about it:

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/10/08/discussing-the-long-arc-of-discovery-with-nihs-newest-nobelist/ 

Also included is an interesting dialog on hepatitis C.

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