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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

With this year’s Christmas card, all of us at SSF want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! But what does this year’s Christmas card show?

“With the help of CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors the genome of animals, plants and microorganisms can be changed with extremely high precision. In their epoch-making experiments, this year’s Nobel laureates Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, proved that the genetic scissors can be controlled to cut off any DNA molecule at a predetermined site. Where the clip is located it is then easy to rewrite the code of life. “