Faster, Cheaper .. CRISPR
Let us imagine a quaint little colony where you and I live in peace but this peace is very often disturbed by outsiders who come in and dump garbage or play loud, ear-splitting music. What do we do? We collect photographs of the items that have created a nuisance in the past -- garbage bins, sound systems -- and store them in a photo album. We hire guards and give them copies of photographs from this photo-album and ask them to check each and every visitor if he is carrying any of these unwanted items. When he finds a visitor who is carrying anything that matches with a picture in the album, he simply destroys the item or might even shoot the visitor. If a new culprit enters the premises, with a new disturbing item and is somehow overpowered by the community, then a picture of the new item is added to the album so that, in future, the guards can identify, destroy or deactivate it, if it is brought back again! image from ScienceMag This dramatised scenario is based on ...