The development of this video was funded under NIE Incentivsing ICT Use Innovation Grant (I3G 02/16 CZ).

In the previous video, we looked at how the CRISPR came about and grew to become one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs today. Science aside, what else can we learn from its discovery?

Revisiting the early days of CRISPR's discovery, you will notice that neither Francisco Mojica nor Philippe Horvath had set out to undertake ground-breaking research. They were merely going about doing routine tasks as part of their jobs or investigating something that caught their eye.

Likewise, you may be hidden in a laboratory, unknown to the world, busying yourself on researching something few know or heard of; with the odds of discovering the next breakthrough seemingly negligible. However, the truth is, breakthroughs are frequently the summation of countless small discoveries, and you might be working on that small but crucial discovery right now.

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