How to Use CRISPR in a Sentence

CRISPR

noun
  • What is the future of gene editing with CRISPR?
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2026
  • And that’s really what CRISPR is doing.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • And that’s what the principle is for using CRISPR in that fashion.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • In the new study, the team took to the lab and used CRISPR gene editing to disrupt pax6 gene function.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
  • For a decade after its discovery, CRISPR gene editing was stuck on the cusp of transforming medicine.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The experimental drug employs CRISPR, a gene-editing tool that makes cuts and changes to the body’s genetic code.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Key to this effort is using a tool called CRISPR to knock out the gene responsible for a carbohydrate known as alpha gal.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • When an organism carrying a gene drive mates with a wild-type organism, the CRISPR system makes a cut in the wild-type chromosome.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026
  • So, the research team behind the new work deleted the equivalent region in a fish (the zebrafish) using the gene editing tool CRISPR.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Let’s be reminded that CRISPR, as a genomic technology, works.
    — Demaris Mills, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Namely, what happens if something goes awry and a tool like CRISPR mistakenly edits a different spot, somewhere else in the genome?
    — David Cox, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Like Soteriou, Carabott also joined the CRISPR trial.
    — David Cox, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Chinese researcher He Jiankui used CRISPR to actually make babies.
    — Paul Knoepfler, STAT, 24 June 2026
  • All of those things are interesting applications using CRISPR.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • Scientists and bioethicists have long raised concerns about the implications of CRISPR gene editing in human embryos.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 24 June 2026
  • Since its advent in 2012, CRISPR genome-editing technology has held the potential to change medicine.
    — Jennifer Doudna, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
  • To do this, scientists used multiplex CRISPR editing to rewire plant metabolism.
    — Derek Norman, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Kulkarni says that not all CRISPR approaches are the same, with each company developing its own delivery and gene-editing package.
    — Alice Park, Time, 8 Nov. 2025
  • With this list of candidate genes for eye regeneration, the team can further use CRISPR to disrupt the genes to see if they are required for an eye to regenerate.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Until now, there were plenty of questions about whether gene editing would ever live up to the high expectations set when CRISPR was first described in 2012.
    — Demaris Mills, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Co-lead on the study, Celine Chen, developed a CRISPR screening platform to manipulate genes in the thalamus and cortex.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 Nov. 2025
  • One person acutely aware of the power of CRISPR is Jennifer Doudna, co-developer of the technology.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • Their dream would be to have a CRISPR platform that could address many disparate disorders, but the current reality is that many, many families will still go without bespoke therapies.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
  • One of the most surprising and remarkable discoveries in recent scientific history has been CRISPR.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • Jennifer discussed cases, real patients, living human beings who are alive precisely because of CRISPR therapies.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • These treatments employ a gene editing technique called CRISPR that lets scientists alter DNA in a living organism.
    — Milly Dawson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The next child treated for a urea-cycle disorder should now be able to receive a CRISPR treatment from Muldoon’s template, tweaked to their unique DNA.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Current therapies for Lyme use antibiotics, but patients can develop resistance to those drugs, so the students planned to use CRISPR to block the bacteria.
    — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • In the meantime, scientists have continued to refine the technology with improvements to CRISPR and next-generation editing tools.
    — Laura Dattaro, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
  • The wide-ranging conversation explores the discovery and sudden rise of CRISPR as a tool that can modify genes in a highly precise manner, the successes and issues the work raised, and what comes next.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2026

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