Elinor is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centenary Institute, interested in studying the interactions between host and pathogen. She started her research career at the University of Tasmania, before completing a PhD at Macquarie University studying the effect of genetics on resistance to malaria. She is currently investigating the ways in which platelets affect tuberculosis infection.
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Why the ‘molecular scissors’ metaphor for understanding CRISPR is misleading
The idea of CRISPR as scissors ignores an entire ecosystem of moving parts that are crucial for understanding the awe-inspiring, crazy thing scientists are trying to do when they attempt gene editing.