What is CRISPR?

In this video Paul Andersen explains how the CRISPR/Cas immune system was identified in bacteria and how the CRISPR/Cas9 system was developed to edit genomes. Do you speak another language? Help me translate my videos: Music Attribution Intro Title: Artist: CosmicD Link to sound: Creative Commons Atribution License Outro Title: String Theory Artist: Herman Jolly All of the images are licensed under creative commons and public domain licensing: Adenosine. (2009). English: Artistic rendering of a T4 bacteriophage. The colours grey and orange do not signify anything, they are just used to illustrate structure. Created for Wikipedia. Retrieved from : E. coli Bacteria. (n.d.). Retrieved February 17, 2016, from Fioretti, B. F. Hallbaue