Randall Platt listed by MIT as one of the top technology innovators in the world under the age of 35

The annual list of most promising inventions this year includes Randall Platt and his lab’s work on transcriptional recording, a CRISPR-​based technology which endows cells with a synthetic memory recording molecular events across time. In the words of MIT technology review: “a technology that has the potential to transform our understanding of a number of important biological processes”.