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From KCRW I'm Evan Klimin and you're listening to good food.

Maybe you've heard about the gene editing technology CRISPR.

This massive biotech breakthrough which has emerged in the last decade has mainly been touted for the ways it will let scientists edit the human genome, hopefully to cure genetic

diseases or perhaps more worryingly to create designer babies. But CRISPR is also

being used in another area, the world of food.

Cultural anthropologist Dr. Lauren Crossland Marr hosts a new five-part podcast, A CRISPRBITE.

She takes listeners into labs as... part podcast, A Crisper Bight.

She takes listeners into labs

as researchers tinker with the genes

in what we eat and drink.

What exactly are they trying to achieve

and what is at stake.

Hi, Lauren.

Hi, it's so nice to be here.

This is just so fascinating that you've chosen this

as a way to do an incredible deep dive. I'm wondering if it's inspiring or

horrifying. Well I hope by the end of the conversation it's both.

Yeah. it's both. What exactly is CRISPR?

I've sometimes heard it called DNA scissors,

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