Everywhere you look, people are talking about gene editing, one of the greatest scientific advances in recent memory. Dr. Barrangou is a prominent food scientist with North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina and in the early 2000s, he came across something really cool in his research-mysterious CRISPR-Cas systems, that turned out to be useful as a special, tiny molecular scalpel to edit parts of the genome by removing, adding or altering sections of the genome. It was a discovery that changed science forever. Scientists around the world now broadly use this technology to advance our understanding of almost every organism on the planet. Learn more about the discovery, what it means and how the CRISPR Craze has become a global phenomenon.
Join Dr. Barrangou live as part of our Gairdner Foundation series geared towards Gr 7-12 students.
