Nessa Carey and Xand Van Tulleken on How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures

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🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Nessa Carey, the molecular biologist and author of Hacking The Code Of Life. She was interviewed by the doctor and TV presenter Xand Van Tulleken in a wide-ranging discussion on the ethical and social implications for the revolutionary new tools scientists have developed to edit our genes. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's Intelligence Squared Podcast with me Farra Gissat and me Daniel Ben Corin.
1:05.0	This week we interview the scientist Nessa Carey about gene editing and the implications gene editing has for society in the future.
1:12.0	Daniel tell us about the conversation.
1:13.3	So yeah we had Nessa Carey who's a professor of biology at Imperial College London
1:18.1	and she has a new book out called Hacking the Code of Life, how gene editing will
1:22.0	rewrite our futures. It's obviously a hugely
1:24.4	consequential issue and topic that will have massive implications for society and we had
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