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What is CRISPR? Gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna explains
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What is CRISPR? Gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna explains

You may have heard of CRISPR, but don't know exactly what it is, or how it works. Ian Bremmer asked Jennifer Doudna, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on this gene-editing technology. CRISPR, she says, basically allows scientists to not only study but also make precise, targeted changes to DNA, the "code of life."