Copy and paste, but for DNA

No hunger. No pollution. No disease. Wired’s Amy Maxmen welcomes you to the age of copy and paste DNA editing and the end of life as we know it.

Genome editing started with just a few big labs putting in lots of effort, trying something 1,000 times for one or two successes. Now it’s something that someone with a BS and a couple thousand dollars’ worth of equipment can do. What was impractical is now almost everyday. That’s a big deal.

[I recently listened to Radiolab’s show on Crispr. Recommended. -jkottke]

• Amy Maxmen
• biology
• CRISPR
• DNA
• genetics
• science