CRISPR stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” which relates to a specific pattern of DNA that are the target of the gene editing technique that also requires a “Cas” protein e.g. Cas9. The Cas protein forms a complex with a “guide RNA” to guide where the DNA is cut and once cut, new DNA can be added.
The Big 4 gene editing companies are one huge cartel encompassing the main academic centres between Boston (Harvard, Cambridge MA) on the East Coast and UCSF on the West Coast. They are:
INTELLIA – Founded by Jennifer Doudna. Partnered with Regeneron.
CRISPR – Founded by Emmanuel Charpentier (Doudna’s patent partner).
BEAM – Founded by David Liu & Feng Zhang
EDITAS – Founded by Feng Zhang & George Church
You essentially have a multi-trillion dollar monopoly in the hands of five people. They aren’t even independent between the East and West Coast entities because Doudna herself moved from one to the other to set up the UCSF entity known as the Innovative Genomics Institute.
One of the things that we have learned over the last 4 years of biofascism masquerading as “pandemic preparedness” is that everywhere you see an attempt to impose medical treatments on others, you will find the World Economic Forum (WEF). And CRISPR is no different. Here is Haoyi Wang for the WEF telling us how they are going to harness gene editing for multiple and permanent genetic changes.1