SCIENCEJun 11 · 13:37 UTCQUANTA MAGAZINEJanna Levin and Steven Strogatz

What’s the Future of Gene Editing?

CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is an immune system evolved in bacteria to defend against viral threats. It functions by snipping and storing fragments of viral DNA in the CRISPR region for future defense.

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