Five big mysteries about CRISPR’s origins : Nature News & Comment

Five big mysteries about CRISPR’s origins : Nature News & Comment
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For Mojica, exploring that diversity and answering basic questions about CRISPR systems hold more allure than the revolution they sparked. This puzzles many of his colleagues, he says. He has immersed himself in CRISPR–Cas biology for a quarter of a century, and although there’s a lot of funding available for those who wish to edit genomes, there is considerably less for the kind of work he does.

The quiet revolutionary: How the co-discovery of CRISPR explosively changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s life : Nature News & Comment
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The microbiologist spent years moving labs and relishing solitude. Then her work on gene-editing thrust her into the scientific spotlight.

The unsung heroes of CRISPR : Nature News & Comment
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The soaring popularity of gene editing has made celebrities of the principal investigators who pioneered the field — but their graduate students and postdocs are often overlooked.

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