Since early schools we've learned that DNA's the code
of life, complex despite but four base pairs.
Labs tested to ID protein payload
produced by A, C, T, G skein here, there.
For chain six billion units long, our tools
to isolate a gene were blunt or slow.
It's tough to choose but certain molecules
along its rather lengthy, twisty row.
That changed when Doudna and Charpentier
invented CRISPR/Cas: it let you snip
nigh perfectly. Such tools are, then, the way
to inch mankind towards godlike authorship.
Congratulations came as Nobel Prize!
Let's hope, with this, our tinkerings are wise.