And it was through our research to understand the activity of this protein, Cas9, that we realized that we could harness its function as a genetic engineering technology -- a way for scientists to delete or insert specific bits of DNA into cells with incredible precision -- that would offer opportunities to do things that really haven't been possible in the past.
Kroz naše istraživanje pokušali smo razumjeti aktivnosti ovog proteina, Cas9, da bi shvatili kako možemo iskoristiti njegovu funkciju za genetski inženjering - način kojim znanstvenici brišu ili umeću specifične dijelove DNK u stanice s nevjerojatnom preciznošću - što bi stvorilo mogućnost da radimo stvari koje su prije bile nemoguće.