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· Apr 21, 2026
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CRISPR (Cut & Paste)
Your Catchy Guide to Gene Editing
CRISPR (Cut & Paste)
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Your Catchy Guide to Gene Editing
0:00
Inside every cell, a story's told
0:03
A winding ladder, double-stranded, bold
0:06
A, T, C, and G, the book of you and me
0:09
The source code for everything we're meant to be
0:13
But sometimes in the text, a typo finds its place
0:16
A tiny error, leaving just a trace
0:19
A single letter's glitch, a flaw in the design
0:23
But now we've got a way to go and realign
0:26
Get the CRISPR, make the incision
0:29
Molecular genetic precision
0:33
Like a search and find, we lock it in place
0:36
It's a cut and paste for the human race
0:39
Snip the error, let the cell rewrite
0:42
Editing the dark and bringing in the light
0:46
Oh-oh-oh, the CRISPR way!
0:49
A new instruction for a better day
0:52
So how's it work? Let's break it down real slow
0:56
We send a guide, a little RNA, you know
0:59
It's like a GPS that's programmed for one spot
1:02
It scans the genome for the flaw we've got
1:06
And when it finds the match, it flags it there and then
1:09
That's when the hero, enzyme Cas9, steps in
1:12
It's the molecular scissors, sharp and clean
1:16
The slickest little tool you've ever seen
1:19
Get the CRISPR, make the incision
1:22
Molecular genetic precision
1:25
Like a search and find, we lock it in place
1:29
It's a cut and paste for the human race
1:32
Snip the error, let the cell rewrite
1:35
Editing the dark and bringing in the light
1:39
Oh-oh-oh, the CRISPR way!
1:42
A new instruction for a better day
1:45
Imagine a future, clear and bright
1:49
Where inherited diseases lose the fight
1:52
From fields of crops that flourish and resist
1:55
To cures for things we thought could not be fixed
1:58
A power in our hands to mend and to create
2:02
We're learning to unlock a brand new fate
2:05
Get the CRISPR, make the incision
2:08
Molecular genetic precision
2:12
Like a search and find, we lock it in place
2:15
It's a cut and paste for the human race
2:18
Snip the error, let the cell rewrite
2:22
Editing the dark and bringing in the light
2:25
Oh-oh-oh, the CRISPR way!
2:28
A new instruction for a better day
