The Code of Life and CRISPR with Jennifer Doudna and Walter Isaacson

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Designer babies? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice sit down with biographer Walter Isaacson to explore Neil’s interview with Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, Jennifer Doudna, about her pioneering work with CRISPR technology.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk.
0:16.0	I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:18.0	You're a host and you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:21.0	And I got with me today my co-host, Jeff Nice, Jeff.
0:24.0	Hey Neil, how are you?
0:26.0	Always good to have you. Chuck and you're always cheerful and
0:28.0	good at nice smile.
0:30.0	It's all a lie Neil.
0:32.0	It's all a lie.
0:34.0	It's just a facade.
0:36.0	I'm very well media trained.
0:38.0	So today we got really a hot topic.
0:42.0	Oh my gosh, we're going to talk about CRISPR, the Gene editing tool.
0:46.0	We're going to talk about the origin of life.
0:48.0	What role RNA did or did not play in that?
0:52.0	And I have no expertise in this at all.
0:56.0	So we're going to feature an interview with Jennifer Daudna,
1:02.0	who is an expert in this.
1:04.0	In fact, she's a co-invented CRISPR.
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