Pioneers of Gene Editing
Meet the scientists who made gene editing possible — from the discovery of CRISPR in salt marshes to Nobel Prizes and billion-dollar breakthroughs.
The Spanish microbiologist who found CRISPR sequences in salt marsh bacteria — and was ignored for years
How a curiosity-driven biochemist turned bacterial defense into a Nobel Prize-winning gene editing tool
The French microbiologist who co-discovered tracrRNA and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize
The Broad Institute scientist who first adapted CRISPR for mammalian cell editing
The chemist who invented base editing and prime editing — precision beyond CRISPR scissors
From human genome sequencing to de-extinction — the boldest mind in genetics
Decades of rejection led to the mRNA breakthrough behind COVID vaccines and next-gen gene therapies
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