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Let me tell you, there is nothing like the sheer elation of discovery.

And I was thinking, you know, this is the end of malaria. This is the end of everything else. Mosquitoes spread. Wait a minute. You know, tick spread Lyme disease. We can probably get rid of that too. So in the morning, you were like, woohoo. You were singing to the turtles in the, in the park. Pretty much. And I give myself a full day of being who.

And then I started thinking

but but but but what if something goes wrong I'm Chad I boomrod I'm Robert Crulwich this is

radio lab and the guy that you just heard is Kevin Svelty is a a scientist. He was talking to our producers, Storm Wheeler and Molly Webster. About CRISPR, which is a technology. Actually, it's a new, it's a gene editing technology that can reshape life, actually. Yeah, and we ended up doing an entire show about this. Yeah, and we called it Antibodies Part 1. I do remember that. As if there was going to be a part 2. And that's like, name that. It's like telling someone you got them a birthday present, but you haven't yet. Yeah, that's true. Maybe we should just own up. Radio Lab listeners, we did not get your birthday present. Let's just, let's just, that seems mean. No, we meant to. We meant to have a part two, but, you know, we were doing a story. It fell apart. Life doesn't always work out. Taped sucked, frankly, and we thought it was going to be a story. It just turned, turned out to be a story. But now we have, what we're going to do is we're going to pay you what you're doing.

This is the part two. Yeah, this is the part two. Finally, part two, because CRISPR in the time that we

did the thing till now, has gone banana crazy. So much has happened, really. Yeah, like every day

in the science section, which I know we all read religiously, there is a CRISPR thing.

So just to get us started, we're going to play you the original piece for those of you who never heard it, just to sort of set the baseline. And then we're going to come back and tell you all the stuff that has happened since. Yeah, yes. All right, so let me explain to you how I got started with this. You were some kind of an affair? Yeah, so I'll tell you how I was at a party.

Party.

It was a, it was a, so let me explain to you how I got started with this. You were some kind of an affair? Yeah, so I'll tell you how I was at a party.

Party.

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