Regulating Gene Editing In India
Two women scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020. Both scientists won the award “for the development of a method for genome editing”. They have pioneered the use of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) – Cas9 (CRISPR-associated protein 9) system as a gene-editing tool. The technology is being used in …