Author: Taylor Goldsmith

It’s been on the news and has probably crossed your Facebook timeline under the guise of a couple different names. The terms genetic engineering and genome editing have been tossed around many times in the past in regard to cloning and GMOs (link), but if you see these terms in the media today they are most likely referring to one particular thing- CRISPR. Doing a quick Google search of CRISPR pulls approximately 200,000 results, with some search headings going as far as to call it “a game-changing genetic engineering technique”.