What is CRISPR? CRISPR an acronym for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, you are not alone. But the moral importance of understanding this new technology is extremley important to bioethicists, and should be important to the rest of us. In this recent TED talk, Ellen Jorgensen explains CRISPR in a way the non-scientist can understand.
The ethical implications of CRISPR, and related genetic technologies, was recently discussed in talks presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum in Salt Lake City. We will be posting the audio of these presentations soon.