Biotech & Genetics · Recorded milestone
CRISPR gene editing
Recorded year2012
Doudna and Charpentier turn a bacterial immune system into programmable DNA scissors.
Explore this milestone on the interactive mapBuilt on
- Stored-program computerRecorded · 1948requires
- MicroprocessorRecorded · 1971requires
- Recombinant DNARecorded · 1973enables
- DNA sequencingRecorded · 1977requires
- PCRRecorded · 1983requires
Led to
- CRISPR gene driveRecorded · 2015enables
- Base & prime editingRecorded · 2016enables
- Data stored in living cellsRecorded · 2017enables
- Pig heart in a living patientRecorded · 2022enables
- First CRISPR therapyRecorded · 2023enables
- Gene-edited disease-proof pigsRecorded · 2025enables
- Pig kidney as a bridge to transplantRecorded · 2025enables
- First in-body CRISPR drug approvedForecast · ~2027enables
- AI-designed crop varietiesForecast · ~2028enables
- Engineered soil microbiomesForecast · ~2029enables
- African swine fever vaccineForecast · ~2030enables
- Epigenetic editing drugsForecast · ~2031enables
- Gene-edited livestock commonForecast · ~2032enables
- Pig-organ transplantsForecast · ~2032enables
- Plants as living sensorsForecast · ~2032enables
- Gene-drive mosquitoesForecast · ~2034enables
- Sunlight-to-fuel microbesForecast · ~2035enables
- Life engineered for spaceForecast · ~2036enables
- Self-fertilising cerealsForecast · ~2038enables
- Heat-tolerant coral reefsForecast · ~2050requires
- De-extinct speciesForecast · ~2055enables
- Human organs grown in pigsForecast · ~2062enables
- Programmable living skinForecast · ~2072enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.