61 George Church - Hacking Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

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🗓️ 21 November 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On the show this week guest host Cynthia Graber talks to George Church—a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the author of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. Church explains how, using cutting-edge genetic manipulation techniques, we may be able to help eradicate some of the world's worst diseases.Cynthia and Church also talk about everything from HIV/AIDS research to efforts to engineer an animal that will closely resemble the long-extinct woolly mammoth.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-mindsSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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1:10.4	I'm delighted to welcome back to Inquiring Ms, our most popular guest host, Cynthia Graber.
1:15.1	She's a science writer and a broadcaster, and her interview with Michael Pollan at the start of the year is still one of our biggest hits.
1:21.3	Cynthia has since launched her own excellent podcast called Gastropod, all about the science of food.
1:27.1	But today she's here to help me kick off a
1:29.1	three-part series about our genetic code. Since the media reported that our DNA has been
1:34.0	sequenced a number of years ago, most of us expected pretty major changes to our lives,
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