https://www.scmp.com/rss/324088/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Feng Zhang occupies a corner office on the 10th floor of the gleaming, modern biotech­nology palace called the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. He is one of the most acclaimed young scientists in the US, regularly mentioned, even at 35, as a possible Nobel laureate. That’s because of CRISPR, the gene-editing technique that lets scientists manipulate the genetic code of organisms almost like revising a sentence with a word processor. Zhang was... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2074793/feng-zhang-china-pinnacle-american-science?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2074793/feng-zhang-china-pinnacle-american-science?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:15:00 +0000