2016年10月8日 星期六

What you need to know about CRISPR

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October 8, 2016

Ellen Jorgensen: What you need to know about CRISPR

09:53 minutes · Filmed Jun 2016 · Posted Oct 2016 · TEDSummit

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 raised extraordinary questions like these -- but how does it work? Community science 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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