Coffee Break: Gene Editing Gone Wrong, Plants that Eat Animals, and a Neanderthal Gene that Makes a Difference

Part the First: If You Stretch Biomedical Science Too Far It Breaks, Every Time.  Gene editing using CRISPR technology has made possible great leaps in biomedical science, and Emanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were rightly awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it in 2020.  The prospects for CRISPR in therapy for tractable genetic diseases […]