Timeline By MaryPoole Period: 1993 to 2005 Discovery of CRISPR 2005 Discovery of Cas 9 2006 Research is done on using CRISPR Cas 9 for adaptive immunity 2010 Cas cleaves target DNA 2011 Discovery of tracrRNA 2013 CRISPR Cas 9 is harnessed for genome editing 2015 The first study demonstrating gene editing using CRISPR Cas 9 on human embryos was published 2017 First clinical human trial treatment 2017 First CRISPR germline editing is implanted in a human embryo Oct 7, 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to CRISPR