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Letter: We need a better name for CRISPR

Published 9 March 2016

From Birger Johansson

Michael le Page describes the potential of CRISPR gene-editing techniques (5 December 2015, p 32). The ease of use and extreme versatility of the CRISPR/Cas9 mechanism promises to make it as world-altering as antibiotics and the jet engine. However, if it is going to percolate through public awareness the way it deserves, science writers badly need a nickname that quickly gives a picture of what it does. Maybe Âé¶¹´«Ã½ readers can come up with a more descriptive name: the DNA Legokit? Gene Photoshop?

Umea, Sweden

Issue no. 3064 published 12 March 2016

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