Source: WRAL, 1/28/22


Eradication of certain diseases, increasing crop sizes, reducing pest populations — the current and future applications of CRISPR have the potential to change ways of life around the world. A tool for editing genomes — including altering DNA and modifying gene functions — CRISPR is short for CRISPR-Cas9 and refers to a string of DNA and the Cas9 enzyme. CRISPR works by finding a specific section of DNA, cutting it, then inserting a mutation or replacing a faulty gene. Rodolphe Barrangou, a professor at NC State and lead in a CRISPR lab, first learned about CRISPR over a decade ago.

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