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When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia,

had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment,

it represented a milestone for both researchers and patients.

But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators.

I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson,

we're delving into the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Dowdna,

the woman who's helped change the trajectory of humanity.

Listen to Aunt CRISPR, the story of Jennifer Dowdna with Walter Isaacson,

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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact,

a short form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

In March of 1977, Penthouse magazine published a short story by Stephen King called

Children of the Corn, alongside a pro-Nixon Watergate piece and photos of Polish model Jolanta von Zemuda.

It was a nasty and highly effective little short story about a troubled couple on a road trip across America's heartland,

right into the corn-choked expanses of Nebraska and the clutches of a strange youth cult that venerated a being known only as

he who walks behind the rose, represented in crude local folk art as a kind of pagan green-haired

Christ. King writes of it as, quote, a strange green god, a god of corn grown old and strange and hungry. And later on, he describes

it as a large shadow with great red eyes moving behind row upon row of perfect corn. The being

in question here may have connections to the titular entity from it, as well as other beings in the

Stephen King universe. And in the 2006 Malius Mastroram monster book from the RPG call of

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