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r/explainlikeimfive · u/Confident_Muscle4596Aug 1, 2026, 4:30 PM

ELI5 : How does CRISPR work ?

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u/AberforthSpeck1Aug 1, 2026, 4:32 PM
You can spend plasmids to buy upgrades that persist across resets.
- u/Brusex1Aug 1, 2026, 4:39 PM
  Brand new sentence
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u/Sheyvan1Aug 1, 2026, 4:34 PM
If you leave the fries a bit longer in the frier, they get even crispr.
- u/MuffinMatrix1Aug 1, 2026, 4:48 PM
  Thanks, Ask This Old House
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u/Antique_Cod_16861Aug 1, 2026, 4:34 PM
It keeps the vegetables crispy and moist it its compartment.
u/stormbutton1Aug 1, 2026, 4:35 PM
It works like “find and replace all” in a word processor but with genes. Source- I teach biotech
- u/beezkneezsneez1Aug 1, 2026, 4:44 PM
  Wow!!! This made so much sense!! Thank you!
- u/RogueHelios1Aug 1, 2026, 4:47 PM
  Considering how succinct you described it I believe you teach it lol
  - u/stormbutton1Aug 1, 2026, 4:56 PM1 reply
- u/careless251Aug 1, 2026, 4:55 PM
  And the find and replace can be thrown in the vicinity of the document and it will figure it out
- u/thekingadrock931Aug 1, 2026, 5:00 PM
  What does it DO though?
  - u/stormbutton1Aug 1, 2026, 5:01 PM3 replies
  - u/DefinitelyNotKuro1Aug 1, 2026, 5:29 PM
- u/Smorb1Aug 1, 2026, 5:12 PM
  But like.. how in the hell???
  - u/stormbutton1Aug 1, 2026, 5:15 PM1 reply
u/twiztednipplez1Aug 1, 2026, 4:38 PM
We send in RNA with a special protein to cut out specific portions of DNA. When the body regrows that cut out bit the RNA tells the DNA how it should regrow it. So in the famous HIV story going around, when regrowing the DNA, the RNA said instead of being able to receive to HIV regrow so you can't receive it.
u/CXDFlames1Aug 1, 2026, 4:46 PM
If you had a puzzle made of red pieces, and I gave you five blue pieces that were shaped exactly like 5 red pieces in the puzzle And I told you "take out the red pieces and replace them with these blue ones" It would be similar
u/mancapturescolour1Aug 1, 2026, 4:56 PM
Inside the body, there is an instruction manual, a template for how to build things and make them grow, called DNA.

Sometimes the manual has a typo or other mistake. CRISPR/Cas9 is the tool that can find (CRISPR) and snip out the typo in the manual, like a pair of scissors (Cas9)!

So, scientists build this tracker, CRISPR, to identify the exact page and line with the typo, like using a highlighter.

Then Cas9 is introduced to cut out the mistake. After that, one of two things happen.

A) Stop a broken process: The recipe becomes unreadable if the pages in the instructions are glued together in a sloppy way, so the factory stops working and just doesn't produce the part that was faulty anymore.

B) Repair a broken process: With the gap from the incision, scientists can now paste a fresh new sentence to fix the recipe and the part comes out from the factory as intended.

Adapted from nobelprize.org "Popular information: Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life (pdf)" - https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/popular-chemistryprize2020.pdf