In 1992, during the summer of the Barcelona Olympics, Mojica discovered surprising repetitions in the DNA of a microorganism from Santa Pola. He named them CRISPR, which stands for clustered regularly spaced short palindromic repeats.
Mojica's eureka moment came in 2003. Those repeated sections were a system with which microbes memorized viruses, their enemies.
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