A decade after the development of CRISPR as a genome-editing tool, we celebrate the steps along the way, the rapid progress that has been made in just 10 years, and look to the future.

Behind the Development of CRISPR Genome Editing

How CRISPR went from a small curiosity to a Nobel-Prize-winning breakthrough

The 2012 Paper that Changed Science Forever

A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity

Inside the Science

From Jennifer Doudna and Martin Jinek, an in-depth guide through the seminal CRISPR paper

Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier Win the Nobel Prize

The day the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced

How Far It’s Come: CRISPR Clinical Trials

A beginner-friendly overview

Can CRISPR Help Us Deal with Climate Change?

Exploring new frontiers in genome editing

Starting a Revolution Isn’t Enough

CRISPR is changing the world—but it can do more. An essay by Jennifer Doudna.

Media Coverage

• CRISPR, 10 Years On: Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life — Carl Zimmer, New York Times
• How Jennifer Doudna’s Life Has Changed Since Discovering CRISPR 10 Years Ago — Alice Park, TIME Magazine
• An Important Anniversary: A Discovery that is Changing the World — Dan Rather, Steady
• CRISPR debuted 10 years ago, in a paper hardly anyone noticed. Jennifer Doudna reflects on the DNA scissors’ first decade. — Megan Molteni, STAT News
• As CRISPR Turns 10, Its Medical Promise Comes Into Focus — Lisa Jarvis, Bloomberg
• ‘It really feels like a miracle.’ After a decade, CRISPR gene editing races toward a cure. — Ryan Cross, Boston Globe
• The Many Uses of CRISPR: Scientists Tell All — Oliver Whang, New York Times
• CRISPR in the classroom — Eleanor Lutz, New York Times
• How CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing is Transforming Healthcare and Agriculture, a Decade After its Discovery — Alok Jha, The Economist

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