![Everything You Need to Know About CRISPR, the New Tool that Edits DNA](https://hight3ch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/everything-you-need-to-know-abou.jpg)
This animation depicts the CRISPR-Cas9 method for genome editing – a powerful new technology with many applications in biomedical research, including the potential to treat human genetic disease. Feng Zhang, a leader in the development of this technology, is a faculty member at MIT, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and a core member of the Broad Institute.