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 and community lab advocate) is on a mission to explain the myths and realities of CRISPR, hype-free, to the non-scientists among us.

CRISPR Explained – Mayo Clinic