Edición genética y comunicación

Abstract

Communication is essential in all areas of society, but communication in science is inescapable. Communicating means sharing, showing, teaching, and transferring knowledge about discoveries, observations, and findings both to colleagues and to society in general. That is why good communication must always accompany good science. CRISPR genetic editing tools allow us to modify, at will, the genome of any living organism, including our own species. In this text I review the different relevant communicative events in the short but intense life of these «molecular scissors», so called for their ability to cut the DNA molecule effectively and with precision.

Science communication in online media: influence of press releases on coverage of genetics and CRISPR

“…CRISPR specifically is also associated with high popularity in media and widespread conflicts of interests (Lim, 2018), presenting an interesting subject to study. At the same time, novelty of the field is associated with low presence in literature, which referred to coverage of CRISPR in a few narrative reviews (Gurev, 2017;Montoliu, 2018;Pei and Schmidt, 2019) and one recent analysis of 228 articles (Marcon et al, 2019). Present study takes into account over 865 peer-reviewed publications about CRISPR, which were described by 732 news articles.…”