By Demaris Mills, Integrated DNA Technologies – Technology Networks
Only 10 years ago, Nobel prize-winning work introduced CRISPR, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, as a new and powerful genome editing tool. Since then, many exciting applications of the CRISPR-Cas9 system have been developed and proposed, giving a taste of what is yet to come.
Progress has occurred at an unprecedented pace. The amazing breadth of applications supports the claim that the researchers made at the time of the original publication: that CRISPR would have a revolutionary impact on the way we are able to utilize DNA science. These applications have the potential to drastically influence the treatment of health conditions, the drug discovery process and even global climate change efforts. Here are three noteworthy applications: