CRISPR Timeline
The History of CRISPR
1987
2013
August 2017
May 2016
1998
Jesse Gelsinger, an OTC sufferer,
becomes the first human to die as
a result of gene editing therapy.
Scientists discover uses for CRISPR in editing the genomes of plant and animal life.
Alliance VITA, launches their
“Stop GM Babies” campaign,
hoping to raise awareness
about the ethical problems
with genetically modifying
human embryos
Yoshizumi Ishino
and his colleagues
publish the first
sequence of iap.
CAR-T gene therapy becomes the first FDA-approved gene therapy program in United States history, aiming to relieve sufferers of a specific subset of leukemia.
2005
2015
1995
2025
1985
1993
August 11th, 2017
2015
October 2016
2012
British scientists successfully used “TALEN” gene editing to cure a child’s leukemia.
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier discover that CRISPR can be used to edit human cells outside of the body.
A research team out of Sichuan University in China becomes the first group to actively attack a patient’s immune system with the CRISPR-Cas9 system of aide.
A CRISPR survey is
conducted and reveals
that there is a
correlation between
people's views of
CRISPR and their
religious beliefs.
Francisco Mojica becomes
the first person to realize
that CRISPR “actually shared
a common set of features”
Shown above: Layla Richards, cured by TALEN gene editing