The Shift From Basic Curiosity Driven Research Towards Applied Research

I see so many people making the shift from having done basic sort of curiosity driven research towards applied. And that's how we approach CRISPR as well. It was really, you know, for us in the beginning was the question of this looks like an adaptive immune system in bacteria that is RNA directed in some way. So, it was a project that very much started with that really fundamental question.