A Brief History of Gene Editing

It’s happened. The first children genetically engineered with the powerful DNA-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9 have been born to a woman in China. Their altered genes will be passed to their children, and their children’s children. Join CRISPR’s co-discoverer, microbiologist Jennifer Doudna, as we explore the perils and the promise of this powerful technology. It is not the first time human ingenuity has created something capable of doing us great good and great harm. Are we up to the challenge of guiding how CRISPR will shape the future?

The Kavli Prize recognizes scientists for their seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. The series, “The Big, the Small, and the Complex,” is sponsored by The Kavli Foundation.

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[firefoxhits]

Exciting and frightening as hell!

This is God level manipulation.

What will they make?

What nefarious control can they have over the populace??
More worrisome than hopeful.

[blacksheepshepherd]

First there was GMO grains, fruits, poultry, then there were humans..

[derdagian]

Absolutely Everything that the Intelligent Agents do to genes will be viewed by scientists in a future civilization, perhaps; and, they can swear that Evolution caused a change.

[nothingtoxicated]

Wow then they can even make new me by just with the hair of mee

[DerekFolan]

Still no products ? For the general public ? I mean I want crispr pill that changes my hair back to young persons hair ? Or something that restore youth hormones ?

[offmetagamer]

And nothing has ever gone wrong with our selective breeding *looks at a oh....

[meows_and_woof]

“ A brief history of.., .”
Well, at least it wasn’t a clickbait

[omegafeather]

I can make money with this. So the food products is my.

[Hellgrinde]

Thats really cool! Now wtf are the applications of such a technology?!?! Give us another 95 seconds would you? How much ADHD do you think we have lol