CRISPR-Cas9: Potential and Ethical Issues of Gene Editing Technology
CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene editing technology used in molecular biology. It is a system consisting of a DNA sequence called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) and an enzyme called Cas9 (CRISPR-associated protein 9). The CRISPR-Cas9 system was discovered as a natural defense mechanism of prokaryotic organisms (such as bacteria and archaea). This mechanism…