The creator of ‘The X-Files’ says this is the coolest real science fact he learned from the reboot

“CRISPR-Cas9 allows scientists to manipulate the genome in unprecedented ways. CRISPR is a portion of bacterial DNA that protects them from viruses, and they use the protein Cas9 to do it by cutting out pieces of the viral DNA. Researchers have hijacked this process to easily edit any piece of DNA, and even replace it with other DNA of their choosing.”