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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.

Every Halloween season, my family and I invariably pull up some old favorite animated shorts.

Some of these are clips like the This Is Halloween number from 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas,

or the excellent wizard battle from Disney's 1969 film The Sword in the Stone.

But we also, carefully, dig a little deeper in the animation graveyard to unearth, say,

the classic 1929 silly symphony skeleton dance, or the 1932 Fleischer Studios Betty Boop short

mini the mootcher if you haven't seen this strange gym look it up I'm gonna summarize

the plot briefly here but it's gonna sound really weird okay jazz age flapper

gal Betty Boop has an argument with her parents,

with whom she lives, and runs away with her boyfriend, a dog human hybrid named Bimba.

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