For a long time, biotechnology has relied on tools that allow scientists to study and manipulate DNA. However, few discoveries have been as innovative as CRISPR. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, and is a gene-editing technology that lets scientists make targeted changes to DNA. While the name may sound complex, the actual idea is simple. CRISPR acts like a pair of molecular scissors to cut DNA at a specific location so it can be edited.
