CRISPR Gene Editing Teach-Out

In the next video, Yan Zhang, Assistant Professor at Michigan Medicine, discusses why CRISPR is important for biomedical research. Its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and high precision allow research to be conducted by more researchers at a much faster pace than many other types of gene editing.

CRISPR can be used to:

• Identify a gene’s purpose,
• Understand how mutations in genes cause disease,
• Create animal models for human and animal disease, which is an important step in creating treatments,

And much more.

Then, Josiah Zayner speaks about biohacking and self-experimentation with CRISPR injections. Josiah is a biohacker, artist, and scientist passionate about making genetic engineering accessible to a general audience.