CRISPR's next advance is bigger than you think | Jennifer Doudna

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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You've probably heard of CRISPR, the revolutionary technology that allows us to edit the DNA in living organisms. Biochemist and 2023 Audacious Project grantee Jennifer Doudna earned the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work in this field — and now she's here to tell us about its next world-changing advancement. She explains how her team at the Innovative Genomics Institute is pioneering a brand new field of science — precision microbiome editing — that uses CRISPR in an effort to solve seemingly insurmountable problems like asthma, Alzheimer's and climate change. This ambitious idea is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective This is Ted Health and I'm Dr. Shoshana Ungerlighter.
0:19.0	Microbes. You know those tiny invisible creatures that cohabit our world the building blocks of
0:25.4	everything from fungi to bacteria even though we usually think of microbes as mere
0:30.7	passengers in our lives they might just hold answers to some of the biggest
0:35.2	challenges we face today, from climate change to medical mysteries.
0:40.6	In her captivating TED 2023 talk, renowned biochemist Jennifer Dowdna delves into the fascinating
0:47.2	universe of these microscopic beings.
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