Really cool DNA technology

Sorry guys, I know this isn’t exactly common applications, but I came across this AMAZINGLY cool paper the other day on a new method called CRISPR. (Unfortunately they titled their paper “A Crisper Look at Genome Editing”. The title is ridiculously corny but the paper is incredible). It’s a novel idea that essentially edits the genome by essentially swapping out the defective gene for the normal gene using a guide mRNA. Normal gene therapies use viruses to introduce a gene. Normally these genes insert into oncogenic sites, and have shown a very high incidence of cancer. This therapy supposedly eliminates that altogether. I just thought it was really cool, check out the paper if you get a chance!