CRISPR is supposed to be easy. Try explaining it to a roomful of biohackers - STAT

CRISPR is supposed to be easy. Try explaining it to a roomful of biohackers - STAT

CRISPR is supposed to be easy. Try explaining it to a gaggle of beginner biohackers

By ERIC BOODMAN

ERIC BOODMAN/STAT

At a three-day conference of biohackers, an event aimed at democratizing science, a MIT scientist struggled to explain CRISPR genome editing to laypeople.

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