The Age of CRISPR: Engineering the Future of Genetic Medicine | Benjamin Oakes | TEDxBerkeley

[prodemocracy]

The potential of this new therapy could save millions of lives.. I hope it's a matter of years and not decades. Fantastic presentation

[boundlesschange]

What an amazing vision! This is an excellent initiative by this remarkable group and truly essential work. It's time we write our own stories, rather than inherit them. This company deserves all the support it can get to accelerate its efforts. I wonder why such people aren't at the forefront in our country!

[lazarusblackwell]

Go science!

Educate yourselves people every day so that you may have SOME IDEA what the future will bring.

So that you may react to the light of discovery in a RATIONAL and ENTHUSIASTIC way

And not FEAR (that stems from ignorance)

[shiva]

For nonaka moyapthi muscle fibres regeneration gene therapy when it available sir

[robinmoreno]

Can this help with mental issues too like anxiety, depression or schizophrenia?

[RickvanLoy]

When will this therapy available for achromatopsia?

[joshydillens]

Anyone know if changing the ApoE4 status soon might be possible? I have E4/E4 …

[flashflame]

Time to read Aldous Huxley's book BRAVE NEW WORLD first published in 1932!!!!

[renohightower]

There is no money in a cure. The biggest challenge for gene editing companies will be funding.

[Gitohandro]

Maybe by 2050 we'll see some of this technology in effect

[attila]

Lets hope the greed of this country doesn't get in the way of this happening

[julesclay]

This is way, way, way above my competence, but here goes with a couple issues/questions: (1) He posits that to solve cardiovascular issues you have to lower LDL cholesterol, and that's the key. Not so fast, my friend - there is serious doubt that there is ANY correlation whatsoever between high cholesterol and cardiovascular risk - in fact, it's been show in a large study of older Italian men (done, I think, at the University of Bologna) that the higher their cholesterol, the lower their overall mortality. A similar study showed the same in a large population of female nurses. And so on (there's more). Besides, if high cholesterol is the key, lowering can occur with statins, so why would CRSPR be such a big deal? (2) Where is the place of lifestyle in this equation? If my doc edits my genes can I still eat junk food? This seems like just another version of Big Pharma's Big Pill approach to "health care."

[GlobeGreenLLC-wtzd]

hope it can help me live for 2000 years

[prilep]

He is talking against pharmaceutical industry

[GTAsanAndreaser]

Ahhh been over 10 years since cas 9 and I don't see no breakthrough in Medicine, step on the gas researchers, wt r u doing

[karenbaer]

No matter what mankind does to escape death....God said "the wages of sin is death" death is how God pays us for our sin. If you want to live forever...REPENT AND BELIEVE Romans 10:9-11.