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slash UK slash AI for people. This is Scientific American Science Talk posted on August 13th, 2020.

I'm Steve Murski. On this episode, one of the things that

scientists worry about CRISPR is what they call an off-target effect. But it's possible, what they've

seen is sometimes it cuts the wrong part of the DNA. And that could lead to terrible consequences.

And so, you know, in my book, you see this start to happen. You see these people

who were designed to be super soldiers, their bodies are breaking down. That's Mark Alpert. He was a

writer and articles editor at Scientific American for 10 years before leaving to become a novelist. Mark

has joined me on other episodes to talk about a couple of his previous sci-fi thrillers, such as

the Orion Plan and the Furies.

Now he's written The Coming Storm, described by one reviewer as not just ripped from the

headlines, it's an alarm bell ringing from the near future.

Midway through talking to Mark, we'll have a segment sponsored by AstraZeneca.

I spoke with Mark about the coming storm before the pandemic hit,

so we met face-to-face in his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

We don't want to give away a whole lot of the plot because that's the fun of a novel,

especially one like this.

But there's the real science that you do talk about, the climate change implications for

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