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
- Humans always interested in genetic engineering
- Who
- Emmanuelle Charpentier
- What
- Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats
- When
- date
- Why
- How
- Background
- Accomplishments
- What problem were they trying to solve?
- What’s 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/
https://www.statnews.com/2018/11/28/chinese-scientist-defends-creating-gene-edited-babies/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879625715000425