The skin of what type of animal is used to treat burns?
Fish skin, usually from Atlantic cod or Nile tilapia, has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties that support healing of some wounds including burns and diabetic foot ulcers.
What does CRISPR stand for?
CRISPR stands for "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats."
Reference: National Human Genome Research Institute
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Who won the Nobel Prize for CRISPR?
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for CRISPR.
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