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I think CRISPR, it's fair to say, is perhaps the most surprising discovery and maybe most consequential discovery in this century so far.

If you have never heard of something called CRISPR before now, that's likely to change.

CRISPR is a tool for editing our DNA, reprogramming the genetic code, and it has scientists excited

about tackling genetic diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer. How many diseases are we talking about

that this could be used to treat? There are about 6,000 or more. The hope is that we'll be

able to address most, if not all of them.

There's a new kind of affirmative action happening on college campuses, and students from low-income families of all races are the ones who are benefiting. I feel like a lot of our peers

knew from the jump how to navigate college. Their parents were like, you need to do this, you need to do this, and a lot of our peers knew from the jump how to navigate college.

Their parents were like, you need to do this, you need to do this.

And a lot of us did not have that privilege.

I was having this discussion and it's like, oh, we're going to go to New York for the weekend.

Let's all go to New York.

It's like, I can't go to New York.

I got to stay here.

I have to do my job.

This is literally my job.

Welcome aboard.

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