5 Real-World Gene Editing Breakthroughs That Sounds Like Science Fiction
Genome editing is one of the most recurring themes in science fiction. Where annihilation envisioned a world of mutated landscapes & creatures, Jurassic Park pictured a future with de-extinction of dinosaurs, and Elysium imagined an era where every disease is curable. Whether it is a genetic accident with adverse outcomes; or the desirability and feasibility of a planned genetic alteration, gene editing is always an underpinning in science fiction. Since the 1970s, when Biochemists Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen introduced gene editing, it is doing wonders to recreate science fiction in real life, from defeating genetic abnormalities to emergent cloning techniques and extended shelf lives (Li et al, 2020) Even though we are not yet at the point where we can resurrect dinosaurs and other extinct species, scientists can now perform surgeries on genes, specifically altering DNA and manipulating cells in ways hardly possible before. Major Gene Editing Tools According to the Hu