CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world. The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell.

Hopefully, someday, these rare infections won't be a nearly assured death sentence. Scientists unveiled a new CRISPR system that reversibly "pauses" genes, rather than permanently disabling them.

The process is akin to correcting a misspelt word in a sentence or replacing it with ... pathogens, and plants. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats ...