Hello, everyone, and welcome to Talk Nerdy. Today is Monday, March 2, 26, and I'm the host of the show, Dr. Kara Santa Maria. And as always, before we dive into this

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I had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Daphne O. Marchenko. She's an assistant professor at the

Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. And her research focuses on novel ways to examine and enhance the ethical and socially responsible conduct, translation, and interpretation of human genetic research.

She's here today to talk about a new book that she co-authored with her friend and colleague Sam Trejo, a sociologist at Princeton. The book is called

What We Inherit, How New Technologies and Old Myths are shaping our Genomic Future. So without any

further ado, here she is Dr. Daphne O. Marchenko. Well, Daphne, thank you so much for joining us today.

Thank you for having me.

I'm excited to talk about your new book that you co-authored with Sam Trejo,

what we inherit, how new technologies and old myths are shaping our genomic future.

But of course, before we even dive into the book itself,

I'd love to learn a little bit more about you and about your scholarship. So you're a bioethicist,

and Trejo, your co-author, is a sociologist. So bioethics is a really interesting field because it's, I mean, at least from what I understand, it requires an inordinate amount of like multi-disciplinary thought. So I'm curious, what did you study to get to where you are now?

Yes, I definitely did not have a linear path in any way. So my undergrad degrees were in medical

anthropology and Slavic languages and literatures.

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