What you need to know about CRISPR

Title:
What you need to know about CRISPR
Speaker:
Ellen Jorgensen
Description:

Should we bring back the wooly mammoth? Or edit a human embryo? Or wipe out an entire species that we consider harmful? The genome-editing technology CRISPR has made extraordinary questions like these legitimate -- but how does it work? Scientist and community lab advocate Ellen Jorgensen is on a mission to explain the myths and realities of CRISPR, hype-free, to the non-scientists among us.

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
09:53
Format: HTML5
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