How Feng Zhang Modified A Cell's Genome On The Fly
Feng Zhang Joel Kimmel His techniques could be used to study the genetics of autism and schizophrenia. Each year, Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten. Like the 110 honorees before them, the members of this year's class are dramatically reshaping their fields--and the future. Some are tackling pragmatic questions, like how to secure the Internet, while others are attacking more abstract ones, like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance, of course, but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come, the world will be a safer, smarter, and brighter place.--The Editors Feng Zhang Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Broad Institute Achievement Modifying a cell's genome on the fly When Feng Zhang was in graduate school, he discovered that the tools for splicing new genes into living cells were costly, time-consuming, and proprietary....