EP39 - The Search-and-Replace of Life: Decoding the CRISPR Revolution

07/12/2025 23 min

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Episode Synopsis

We talk about curing genetic diseases as if it's magic, a futuristic dream of rewriting our own DNA. But this "magic" is real, it's called CRISPR, and it wasn't invented in a high-tech lab—it was discovered in a bacterium. How can you possibly edit a three-billion-letter code inside a living cell? And how did a microbe's immune system give us the most powerful tool in the history of biology?

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