What is CRISPR? (Audio) – NHPR

Read article - As a guest on "The Exchange," Elizabeth Sergison, a PhD candidate at Dartmouth, discusses how she is using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats (CRISPER) to research breast cancer. CRISPR allows scientists to precisely target and cut any kind of genetic material, including in humans, and has given hope for treating diseases like cancer, muscular dystrophy, and ALS.