Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, July 22nd, 2019 and I'm your host Kara Santa Maria and today we're going to be chatting with Dr Kevin Holden.

And we will get back to Kevin in just a minute.

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So like I said, this week we're going to be talking with Dr. Kevin Holden.

Now, Kevin is, this is such a great title, he's the head of science at Cynthiao Corporation and

Cynthia is a genome engineering innovation company. We're going to talk a lot

about CRISPR. He's going to explain all about what that means. So I guess without any further ado, here he is, Dr. Kevin Holden.

Well, Kevin, thank you so much for joining me today.

Hi, Kara. Yeah, it's great to be here, thanks.

Of course, so we are going to be talking about all sorts of cool stuff that I'm not sure

that I've talked about too much on the show before.

Anybody who's listening to Talk Nurdy, who's like a regular

listener, knows that I also work on another

podcast called The Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

And I think one of our favorite topics on SGU,

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