Choose Your Own Joke Adventure: Startup Raises $120 Million for Gene Therapy Pill

FINALLY.

MIT Technology Review reports that the startup behind CRISPR, a gene therapy technology, raised $120 million in venture funds. Let’s play choose your own joke adventure! For a joke about the crisper in your fridge, check out our Twitter account. For a political joke, head down to the post’s tags. For a crowdfunding joke, take a look at our Facebook page. And for a deliberate misread of the press release leading to a wacky misunderstanding, head below the fold.

It says here that Editas’s CRISPR has promising potential for treating “sickle cell or…not being part tiger.” Well shit, I didn’t realize there was a demand for that, but now that I said it out loud it makes perfect sense.