Zitat des Tages von Jennifer Doudna:
Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20-base-pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells.
The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.
One can envisage taking cells from a patient with sickle-cell anaemia or an inherited blood disorder and using the Cas9 system to fix the underlying genetic cause of the disease by putting those cells back into the patient and allowing them to make copies of themselves to support the patient's blood.
I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.
I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.
