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CRISPR Explained

What is CRISPR? What can CRISPR do? What is CRISPR CAS9? This is a terrific explainer of what CRISPR is and what is possible. Should we edit a human embryo? Should 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? Ellen Jorgensen (Scientist…