Resumen de Director of evolution
Le Page talks to Jennifer Doudna about how to use her discovery, the CRISPR gene-editing technique. In 2012, Doudna's team made one of the biggest discoveries in the history of biology: how to edit the DNA in living cells with relative ease. In essence, it gives humans the power to direct evolution. It wasn't what the team had set out to do, but they realised immediately that CRISPR gene editing had immense potential. So did the rest of the world. Just six years on, it has already been used to help treat cancer and to alter the DNA of many plants and animals -- including that of human embryos. The ethical issue that has attracted by far the most headlines, though, is whether CRISPR should be used to permanently alter the DNA of our children, and by extension all our descendants
