Supernatural Science

INTRODUCTION  The field of biology has always been a science of discovery as we know the research is ongoing from Gregor Mendel's pea plants which revealed the idea of genetic to the mapping of human genome in early 2000s and to our surprise each and every milestone achieved has reshaped the knowledge of our understanding of life. In the 21st century, one of the revolutionary breakthrough has been conquered in biology and that is CRISPR-Cas9 which is often nicknamed as "genetic scissors". This is considered to be a powerful tool not only for molecular biology but also for curing diseases, improving agriculture as many possibilities have opened up which could even reshaped evolution.  In this blog post, we'll gain knowledge about CRISPR by knowing about its working, applications and the ethical issues which it raises. Sup WHAT IS CRISPR? The term CRISPR stands for "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repes1iqnats". Although the ter...