With the promise of saving millions of lives, CRISPR medicine is born

With the promise of saving millions of lives, CRISPR medicine is born

Briefly

In 1992, during the summer of the Barcelona Olympics, Mojica discovered surprising repetitions in the DNA of a microorganism from Santa Pola. He named them CRISPR, which stands for clustered regularly spaced short palindromic repeats.

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Mojica's eureka moment came in 2003. Those repeated sections were a system with which microbes memorized viruses, their enemies.

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