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🗓️ 3 August 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | The tweets are in dawn of the designer baby. Scientists safely use gene editing to |
0:06.8 | delete a mutation from a human embryo bringing back ethical debates. Scientists have |
0:11.6 | edited human embryos to safely remove diseases. What could go wrong? Great |
0:15.6 | question. Trump is the designer baby of the GOP. Good point. Stoked for those who |
0:21.9 | may benefit but scared this might be the beginning of the end of the era of |
0:25.1 | smart monkeys who you call them monkey. Last week the MIT Technology Review reported |
0:30.7 | that scientists and Oregon successfully modified the DNA of human embryos |
0:34.6 | using the gene editing technique CRISPR to edit out a heritable heart |
0:38.4 | condition signaling perhaps the dawn of designer babies start saving your pennies |
0:43.2 | or you might wind up with one of those outdated imperfect babies. Plus, |
0:46.9 | roaming millennial Amanda Presto-Jacamo and Paul Boa joined the panel of |
0:50.9 | deplorables to discuss Rosio Donald's new women only political party White House |
0:55.9 | aid Stephen Miller's Smackdown of CNN and the prospect of President Zuckerberg |
1:00.4 | Oh my stick around at the end because I will answer your questions from our |
1:04.8 | first ever mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles show. |
1:09.8 | This is a major news story. |
1:18.8 | Scientists have now successfully edited the human genome and deleted a mutation |
1:24.0 | for a heart disorder which is called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Luckily we |
1:28.4 | at the Michael Knowles show we have so many great live feeds. We have a live feed |
1:32.0 | from the laboratory where this advance occurred. Can we cut to it? |
1:35.6 | Genetics. What can it mean? The ability to perfect the physical and mental |
1:39.4 | characteristics of every unborn child? |
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