Gene-y in a Bottle

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

You can’t pick your parents. But soon you may be able to change the DNA they gave you. CRISPR technology is poised to take DNA editing to new levels of precision and speed. Imagine deleting genes from your body that you don’t like and inserting the ones you want. The swap might not even require a fancy lab. Biohackers are already tinkering with genes in their homes. Find out how CRISPR technology might change everything when the genetic lottery is no longer destiny. Plus, a cardiologist identifies the troublesome genes that once gave us evolutionary advantages but today are fueling obesity, depression and other modern illness. Guests: Lee Goldman – Cardiologist, dean of Columbia University Medical Center, author of “Too Much of a Good Thing; How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us” Jacob Corn – Scientific director, Innovative Genomics Initiative, University of California, Berkeley Katelynn Kazane – Research assistant, Innovative Genomics Initiative, University of California, Berkeley Josiah Zayner - Biohacker, former NASA synthetic biologist. His biohacking store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.9	machine and even then you'll stumble into multiple logical fallacies, but never mind.
1:23.0	Scientists have now added an asterisk in a footnote to that added
1:26.9	about parents, that you can't change them, but you may not have to play the genetic
1:30.9	hand that they dealt you. Imagine taking out the genes for
1:34.4	traits you don't like and adding in some for those you want. There's a single
1:39.2	letter in the DNA alphabet that causes sickle cell disease and we just need to change that
1:43.1	letter back to what's found in healthy people. We're on the cusp of
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