Now are we going to manage evolution ourselves?
In a period when we discovered the Waves of Gravity and confirmed the existence of the legendary particle called the Higgs Boson, I tend to think the scientific story of our day is CRISPR. This will be true both because of how much good it may do, how many diseases may be treated by it, for instance, as well as how much potential it has to do very severe, wide-ranging, trouble-making things as well.
The short story is that we stumbled onto this natural virus-based method of editing genes, just chopping out targeted pieces of them with precision, and it can either heal half of all human disease or create a Brave New World with genetic troubles beyond imagination.
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