The First CRISPR Gene-Editing Drug is Coming — Possibly as Soon as Next Year

The First CRISPR Gene-Editing Drug is Coming — Possibly as Soon as Next Year Until recently, CRISPR—the gene-editing technology that won scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry—sounded more like science fiction than medicine; lab-created molecular scissors are used to snip out problematic DNA sections