MIDDLEBURY — The 12 members of Professor Lindsay Repka’s CHEM 0322 – Biochemistry of Macromolecules course at Middlebury College this spring studied CRISPR, the gene-editing technology, and produced a multimedia package for Addison Independent readers that explains the science, measures the interest of the general public in GMOs and offers reasons why regular people should care.
Click on the links below to read their stories.

••Controversial gene-editing technology could improve our world
••The workings of CRISPR
••Gene editing raises social, political and science issues
••Why you should care about gene editing

**Recommended further reading on CRISPR