Reshaping Evolution

TED Radio Hour

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Science, Society & Culture, Technology, Social Sciences

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Original broadcast date: January 7, 2022. New innovations in gene and stem cell technology have the power to shape ecosystems and even change humanity. This hour, TED speakers share the breakthroughs heralding the next scientific revolution. Guests include biochemist Jennifer Doudna, physicist and biotech entrepreneur Nabiha Saklayen and conservation innovator and biotech entrepreneur Ryan Phelan.

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:04.4	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:06.8	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.2	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:09.9	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:12.0	Around the world.
0:12.9	To understand who we are.
0:14.8	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.0	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:21.9	Challenge you.
0:22.8	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.1	And even change you.
0:26.3	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.4	Do you feel that way?
0:31.1	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.5	From Ted and NPR.
0:43.6	I'm Mnuch Zameroidi, and I want to go back about 10 years to Berkeley, California.
0:50.5	Specifically to a lab on the UC Berkeley campus run by a woman named Jennifer Doudna. I've always investigated fundamental questions about the nature of modern biology,
0:58.4	in particular on molecules of RNA. These are chemical cousins of DNA that do lots of interesting
1:06.5	things in cells and viruses. So Jennifer was studying RNA molecules, and that led her to investigate
1:15.7	a rumored bacterial immune system called CRISPR. CRISPR, or clustered, regularly interspaced,
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