CRISPR inventor Jennifer Doudna on Ethics of Gene Editing

CRISPR inventor Jennifer Doudna on Ethics of Gene Editing

UC Berkeley professor, Jennifer Doudna, discusses the far-reaching positive potential for the new gene-editing tool, CRISPR, as well as the need for close consideration and agreement on how it can be used.

For more information, visit: http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/01/crispr-inventor-calls-for-pause-in-editing-heritable-genes/

Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally
Conference footage courtesy of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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