Enhancing Food Sustainability Through CRISPR

Faced with feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050, how can we manage food crops and food animals that are more sustainable, more nutritious, adaptable to climate change, safer, less wasteful, and perhaps even allergen or gluten free? Tackling all of these challenges is a huge endeavor but one tool—CRISPR gene editing—may hold the key to sustainable food production.

CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, enables the precise editing of a ge…