Nobelist Talks CRISPR Uses
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | This is |
| 0:35.0 | the Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. |
| 0:39.0 | On October 7th, Jennifer Dowdna and Emmanuel Sharpentier shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development |
| 0:47.0 | of the gene editing tool called CRISPR. |
| 0:50.6 | Last April I spoke with Dowdna at an event in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:54.0 | A few months ago I was at a talk about wine and CRISPR came up. |
| 1:00.0 | And it was an appropriate thing to bring up. |
| 1:03.0 | What is it like to be in this field right now |
| 1:07.0 | where everyone is talking about the work that you do |
| 1:11.0 | and its implications? |
| 1:13.0 | Well, I have to say it's very exciting and it's, |
| 1:17.0 | as a scientist, wonderful to see all the creative work that's going on with gene editing. |
| 1:21.0 | It's just a fascinating opportunity |
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