Homo sapiens took down everybody else to become the apex predator on this planet, and not because we were bigger, badder, sharper, faster, harder or more frightening than anybody else.
We're tool users. - New York Magician
There's a pleasing symmetry to be found in considering CRISPR-CAS9 and phage therapy.
Credit: @teoremadegoedel; Twitter
You know, because the latter involves humans using bacteriophage viruses (honed by evolution) to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria (honed by evolution) and the former involves using hacked bacterial immune systems (optimized by evolution to kill - you guessed it - bacteriophages :D ) to save ourselves.