Cut-and-paste DNA editing. FDA-approved. Nobel Prize. We're rewriting life.
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize for giving humanity the ability to cut-and-paste DNA like editing a text file. In 2023, the FDA approved Casgevy — the first CRISPR-based therapy — to cure sickle cell disease. We are literally rewriting the source code of life. The ethical implications are staggering, the medical potential is unlimited, and the fact that it was adapted from a bacterial immune system makes it the greatest act of biological plagiarism in history.
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