Can CRISPR help beat COVID-19? SARS- CoV-2, better known globally as coronavirus, took the world by storm after coming to rise in the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019. This pandemic shook the world and forced most nations into country-wide lockdowns. To date, this pandemic has claimed more than 12 million lives globally [1] with the death toll still rising.
Many pharmaceutical companies…
The covid-19 was reported to have begun in Wuhan, China, after a 55-year-old man got infected on November 17, 2019. The virus soon spread to Iran and onwards until almost every country of the world got affected. This was when the WHO changed the status of the new virus from a simple epidemic to a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Over the past year, millions of individuals all over the world have…
The CRISPR-cas9 technology has endless biomedical and biological applications that could forever alter our world.
For the past decade it has caused quite a stir in the scientific community.
But not everyone is as excited.
Specifically, philosophers, skeptics, and average citizens who are concerned with the moral and ethical implications of the ever-advancing technology.
Some of…
With new strains of the Covid-19 virus emerging throughout the world, the human population is in need of an advanced and effective cure– one that would not only kill the virus but also inhibit its spread from person to person. CRISPR is considered a highly versatile gene-editing tool that has completely revolutionized multiple fields of science. It has a diverse range of clinical…