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America Dissected

Is life about to get CRISPR? with Carl Zimmer

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

CRISPR is one of those bio-scientific breakthroughs that has the potential to change society. Abdul talks about what makes CRISPR so important and speaks with Carl Zimmer, science journalist at the New York Times, about how this discovery is already changing society and about his new book “Life’s Edge: The Search for What it Means to Be Alive.” For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0

The FDA approves both Moderna and J&J's booster as new research shows that among people who

0:09.9

first received a J&J vaccine, boosting with a different vaccine may yield better protection.

0:15.1

The FDA has officially set new salt guidelines for restaurants and food manufacturers.

0:20.1

The FDA also approved its first e-cigarette product, claiming that the benefit of offering

0:24.2

cigarette smokers an alternative outweighs the risk of new nicotine addiction.

0:28.2

This is America Dissected.

0:29.2

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul El Sayyad.

0:30.2

A few years back in India, I had the chance to ride an elephant.

0:41.8

And they're really big.

0:44.4

Today though, an elephant isn't much bigger than a lot of things that move a lot faster

0:48.1

that human ingenuity have created, like a truck, or a ship, or an airplane.

0:53.6

But imagine what our ancestors used to walking or running, or maybe taking a donkey, camel,

0:57.5

or horse, would have thought as they came upon these huge beasts.

1:01.9

What's saddening is how much the things we've created have destroyed in their wake.

1:05.9

Whether it's the collective exhaust of our combustion engines or factory farms all over

1:09.4

the world, climate change is decimating global biodiversity from the smallest creatures

1:13.9

to the biggest.

1:14.9

But what if we could change that?

1:16.9

A woolly mammoth could roam the earth by 2027.

1:20.1

Geoscience is George Church and his company Colossal trying to revive the extinct creature.

1:26.1

A new company, appropriately called Colossal, is trying to bring back the woolly mammoth.

1:30.2

They say they're doing it because repopulating the chundra with mammoths could stop the

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