In 'The Genetic Lottery,' Kathryn Paige Harden considers a new moral framework for genetics
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
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🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Kathryn Paige Harden says most people have no clue what genetic science can already do. In her new book 'The Genetic Lottery,' she says a new moral framework is needed to prepare for what's to come. Kathryn Paige Harden and Carey Goldberg join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:35.1 | I'm Megna Takarobardi. |
| 0:37.9 | Her name is Dolly. |
| 0:39.4 | Seven months old. |
| 0:40.4 | She may not be the monster imagined in a science fiction fantasy, yet the crudley fin |
| 0:45.3 | dorset lamb may represent a major landmark in the history of genetic engineering. |
| 0:51.6 | July 1996. |
| 0:53.9 | Dolly the fin dorset did indeed represent a major landmark in the history of genetic engineering. |
| 0:59.6 | She was the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell. |
| 1:04.9 | Since then, advances in genetic sciences have rapidly accelerated. |
| 1:08.8 | In 2010, scientists sequenced the entire Neanderthal genome. |
| 1:13.7 | In 2016, the first human baby with the DNA of three parents was born. |
| 1:20.4 | In 2020, two scientists won the Nobel Prize for developing CRISPR, a technology that makes |
| 1:26.2 | gene editing more precise and easier than ever. |
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