Raising awareness about the potential of genome editing in curing diseases is the focus of a project created by Navya Madhu from India through PictoBlox. The project involves an interactive game, slides, and speech recognition technology to make the learning process easy and fun.
It helps in faster and more accurate diagnosis, more targeted treatments, and prevention of genetic disorders. This helps in improving the quality of food production as well as strengthening the health infrastructure. The project aims to convey the importance of genome editing in a way that is interesting and understandable to everyone.
The project is based around a classroom setting with a teacher introducing the topic and guiding the students. From designing guide RNA to help the Cas9 bond with it, to unzip the virus, cutting the mutated parts, and replacing them with a healthy copy. The game defines all the steps of genome editing.
