“Jennifer Doudna, one of the co-inventors of CRISPR, thinks she knows which application for the powerful gene-editing tool will be the first to affect the mainstream — and it has nothing to do with curing diseases or creating designer babies.
“I think in the next five years the most profound thing we’ll see in terms of CRISPR’s effects on people’s everyday lives will be in the agricultural sector,” Doudna told Business Insider — and those CRISPR’d crops have the potential to help alleviate problems ranging from hunger to obesity…”
Source:
https://futurism.com/crispr-co-inventor-gene-edited-food/
