# What you need to know about CRISPR

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDSummit
- Speaker: Ellen Jorgensen
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Engineering
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_jorgensen_what_you_need_to_know_about_crispr)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [What you need to know about CRISPR](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ellen_jorgensen_what_you_need_to_know_about_crispr/ff22dff4e8b7), 10 min (TED's player)