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What you need to know about CRISPR

Ellen Jorgensen · TED

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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.

The talk

  1. What you need to know about CRISPR 10 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDSummit
Speaker
Ellen Jorgensen
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, Engineering
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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