Extra Hasty Crispr

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

For the past few years, a new scientific tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 has been hailed as the future of medicine. But a new study, published in Nature Methods , found that using CRISPR-Cas9 to edit a genome can result in hundreds of unintended mutations being introduced. Is this tool still the future, or should we slow down and pump the brakes on gene editing? Jeff and Anthony discuss.

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0:00.0	Anthony, you are packaging up some mail there?
0:03.1	For the purposes of this bit, yes I am.
0:05.0	Let's say that I'm packaging up some mail
0:06.7	to send to our patrons at the secret mail level.
0:09.3	Wow, and in this magical fantasy world
0:11.5	where you're actually doing that,
0:12.6	that mail is super cool and awesome, right?
0:15.2	Yeah, and even in the real world,
0:16.7	where we actually do it once a month,
0:18.4	if you become a patron at the secret mail level,
0:20.3	we send you a package every month
0:22.2	that is full of interesting things.
0:23.8	Previously we've sent zines, we've sent pins,
0:25.8	we've sent art prints,
0:26.9	and we have something really amazing coming up
0:29.0	this next month.
0:30.0	That's patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:32.4	Okay.
0:47.5	We live in a hellscape right now.
0:49.9	I think we live in a hellscape right now.
0:51.8	That's fair.
0:52.7	This is we have concerns.
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