CRISPR Gene Editing

By Dr. Mercola

The discovery of the gene editing method known as CRISPR eventually led to a novel gene editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9, a form of molecular scissors that allows for far more accurate DNA editing for the removal, addition or altering of sections of a DNA sequence. A layman’s explanation of the technology is presented in the video above.

CRISPR is the acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeat, and its function was initially discovered in 1993 by Spani...