EPISODE · Mar 21, 2019 · 5 MIN
Preparing to Unleash Crispr on an Unprepared World
from Science, Spoken · host SpokenLayer
Back in the 1980s, researchers began to notice a strange pattern in the genes of many microbes. There would be a stretch of DNA that read the same forward and backward, then a stretch of what looked like junk, then another palindrome, and so on. No one knew what the segments were for, but they were striking enough that a pair of scientists in Europe dubbed them “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” or Crispr for short. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
What this episode covers
Back in the 1980s, researchers began to notice a strange pattern in the genes of many microbes. There would be a stretch of DNA that read the same forward and backward, then a stretch of what looked like junk, then another palindrome, and so on. No one knew what the segments were for, but they were striking enough that a pair of scientists in Europe dubbed them “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” or Crispr for short.
NOW PLAYING
Preparing to Unleash Crispr on an Unprepared World
No transcript for this episode yet
Similar Episodes
No similar episodes found.