How A Gene Editing Tool Went From Labs To A Middle-School Classroom

"On a Saturday afternoon, 10 students gather at Genspace, a community lab in Brooklyn, to learn how to edit genes."

"There's a recent graduate with a master's in plant biology, a high school student who started a synthetic biology club, a medical student, an eighth grader, and someone who works in pharmaceutical advertising."

"'This is so cool to learn about; I hadn't studied biology since like ninth grade,' says Ruthie Nachmany, one of the class participants. She had studied anthropology, visual arts, and environmental studies in college, but is now a software engineer."