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In 1989 , Thomas R. Cech won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of RNA .
Cech says RNA is a messenger that acts as an intermediary to make proteins.
He says it can do so much more than just act as a messenger, it can be a good messenger.
In the SARS-CoV-2 virus, RNA doesn't even mess around with DNA at all.
There are more than 400 RNA-based drugs that are in some stage of development.
CRISPR technology is a way to correct mistakes that crop up in our chromosomes in our DNA.
The other really major opportunity has to do with the plants and animals that we rely on for our food and shelter.
Scientists have decided it would be premature to allow CRISPR genome editing of the human germline so that the changes would be inherited.
But right now we don't know 100% the safety of this technology.
Evolution of evolving RNAs in the lab could be used to do novel things that natural RNAs don’t do.
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