Playing God: The Ethics of Gene Editing
Nishka Srivastava The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020 was, in a historic first, shared by two women: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna. They have revolutionised the life sciences and opened up avenues for treatment we could scarcely have imagined earlier, all with the gene-editing technology of CRISPR. What is CRISPR? CRISPR, shorthand for …