Harder, Better, CRISPR, Stronger

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon. The effort, led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University, involved changing the DNA of a large number of one-cell embryos with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. Anthony and Jeff discuss designer babies, and what this might mean for the future.

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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,
0:12.8	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,
0:20.4	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,
0:27.1	and we have something really amazing coming up this next month
0:29.8	that's patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:32.4	Hey, we've been talking quite a bit about the CRISPR Cas9.
0:37.4	Oh, so many good books.
0:48.0	Yeah, but I don't know, maybe we won't see the dark tower.
0:50.7	This is we have concerns.
0:51.7	Hi Jeff, can I have any carbon below concerned citizens?
0:55.2	Hey, we've been talking quite a bit about the CRISPR Cas9.
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