CRISPR | The Future of Genetic Engineering

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

Dr. Mike Todorovic

Physiology, Physiotherapy, Health & Fitness, University, Science, Nursing, Education, Health, Anatomy, Medicine

4.8 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr Matt and Dr Mike discuss how humans realised that bacteria could fight off viruses using sequences in their DNA called, CRISPR. Today, CRISPR technology is being used to cure cancer and investigate the cause of genetic disease.

For a video of Dr Mike teaching about CRISPR, click HERE!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr Matt and Dr Mike's medical podcast.
0:29.5	Long form.
0:30.4	Long form podcast, unlike those short little five-minute ones we've been doing, Matt.
0:34.2	Hopefully people are still listening to the long-form ones.
0:36.6	The short form, heaps of people
0:38.4	listening.
0:38.9	They're loving it.
0:39.8	I'm getting great feedback, which is really nice.
0:42.2	Today we're talking about a topic which is really complicated, really quite amazing, and
0:51.0	personally, I think it's going to be revolutionary when it comes to gene editing and things
0:57.1	like cancer therapies.
0:58.3	Oh, so it's not about snacks.
0:59.8	Not about snacks.
1:01.5	So just the name.
1:03.3	That's what I thought it was.
1:04.5	Why?
1:04.8	Well, what's the name?
1:05.7	Crisp.
1:06.4	Crisp.
1:07.2	Yeah.
1:07.9	Okay.
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