Fascinating prediction by Carl Sagan in his 1980 TV series "Cosmos" about the future technology of being able to directly edit genes. Only a few decades later (in 2011) the genome editing technology (CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors) was discovered and has changed everything. The discovery of this technology earned Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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