CRISPR (Cut & Paste)

Inside every cell, a story's told A winding ladder, double-stranded, bold A, T, C, and G, the book of you and me The source code for everything we're meant to be But sometimes in the text, a typo finds its place A tiny error, leaving just a trace A single letter's glitch, a flaw in the design But now we've got a way to go and realign Get the CRISPR, make the incision Molecular genetic precision Like a search and find, we lock it in place It's a cut and paste for the human race Snip the error, let the cell rewrite Editing the dark and bringing in the light

Oh-oh-oh, the CRISPR way! A new instruction for a better day So how's it work? Let's break it down real slow We send a guide, a little RNA, you know It's like a GPS that's programmed for one spot It scans the genome for the flaw we've got And when it finds the match, it flags it there and then That's when the hero, enzyme Cas9, steps in It's the molecular scissors, sharp and clean The slickest little tool you've ever seen Get the CRISPR, make the incision Molecular genetic precision Like a search and find, we lock it in place It's a cut and paste for the human race

Snip the error, let the cell rewrite Editing the dark and bringing in the light Oh-oh-oh, the CRISPR way! A new instruction for a better day Imagine a future, clear and bright Where inherited diseases lose the fight From fields of crops that flourish and resist To cures for things we thought could not be fixed A power in our hands to mend and to create We're learning to unlock a brand new fate Get the CRISPR, make the incision Molecular genetic precision Like a search and find, we lock it in place It's a cut and paste for the human race

Snip the error, let the cell rewrite Editing the dark and bringing in the light Oh-oh-oh, the CRISPR way! A new instruction for a better day