A Nobel for CRISPR! When, Who, How, What Now

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with @vijaypande @jorgecondebio @smc90 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded this week to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for the revolutionary CRISPR/Cas9 "genetic scissors" technology for genome editing. But is that analogy too limited for describing the true power and potential of CRISPR as a platform? And while the time between (unexpected) discovery to practice to award has been less than a decade, where are we, really, with CRISPR in practice?

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