Programming The Code of Life With CRISPR — With Trevor Martin, CEO of Mammoth Biosciences

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Trevor Martin is the CEO and co-founder of Mammoth Biosciences, a $1 billion company that develops CRISPR technology to edit genes. Martin joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how CRISPR is working in production today — not in some distant future — and what the ethical ramifications of this technology will be as it gets more advanced. You can find Trevor on Twitter: twitter.com/martintrevor_ And here's Mammoth Biosciences: mammoth.bio

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0:51.2	Thank you. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed nuance conversation, of the tech world and beyond.
0:55.7	Well, one of the most exciting technologies in the world today is CRISPR.
1:01.4	It is the technology that is talked about in abstract often, but starting to be used in some real practical cases when it comes to editing genes, actually getting in there and changing the genetic
1:08.8	makeup of people and other things. And I think this is a technology
1:14.3	that we're going to start hearing so much more about in the coming years. And this show today,
1:20.3	we're going to preview to you exactly what's going to happen. Our guest today is Trevor Martin.
1:24.9	He is the CEO and co-founder of Mammoth Bioscience.
1:29.0	He founded it with Jennifer Doudna, who's the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Mammoth today is bringing this technology to market in ways that you're going to find.
1:38.8	Incredibly surprising. So we're going to hear about what's going on with CRISPR today.
1:42.6	And then we're going to talk about some
1:44.5	of the interesting ethical implications. Trevor, welcome to the show. Yeah, thanks for having me.
1:50.1	Great to have you. We've talked about this in the past. I find it to be one of the most fascinating
1:54.1	topics in the entire world of technology, totally overlooked, I think, by the popular media.
1:58.8	So let's get into it. The first thing I want to ask you is what is gene editing and what is CRISPR?
2:04.5	It's, you know, to most people, I think it's this futuristic thing that's, you know,
2:08.6	going to happen at some point in the future where you're going to make, you know, these
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