The end of genetic disease | Jacob Corn | TEDxBerkeley

What if humans could be edited to run faster, jump higher, and think bigger? What if disease could be eradicated before it ever came to be? These are the questions that no longer belong in just comic books, but in the laboratory of the Innovative Genomics Institute’s Scientific Director, Jacob Corn. In this talk, he explores the future and ethics of CRISPR/Cas-9 genome editing.


Jacob Corn is the Managing Director and Scientific Director of the Innovative Genomics Initiative and faculty at UC Berkeley in the department of Molecular & Cell Biology. Jacob’s research generally bridges reductionist mechanism with cell biology, with the overarching goal of understanding how biophysical properties interact within the cellular environment to shape signaling behavior and how disease arises when these properties go awry. As the director of the IGI, Jacob is committed to pushing the boundaries of next-generation genome editing for transformative insights into fundamental biologies and to laying the groundwork for clinical and commercial applications of the technology.

[snehasisdutta]

He explained the whole basic things in a very lucid way...Expecting more videos and more deep concept in future.

[rajurockss]

Is there any treatment for CAH
my one month old son is diagnosed with CAH

[markpeterson]

This genetic editing is truly amazing and a great break through in modern medicine. There may be some back lash with the idea of the treatment like being God from editing a person's chemical make up, but the diseases that can be cured will help hundreds of thousands of people if not more. Corn mentioned the expanse of things that genetic editing can attribute to, but what is the full extent of the changes that genetic editing can do for a person and how many health fields can this new technology impact. I think that genetic editing can go beyond just genetic diseases and possibly finding a way to re-engineer viruses to fight other diseases. What makes me question the editing is what if they replace the wrong gene and cause more health problem as an effect. There needs to be a lot more testing but as the future draws near and genetic editing is perfected, this will become one of the biggest breakthrough in medicine since vaccines.

[Vinkush]

Sir, please help me, my child 8 years age, till now she is not able to recognise the parents, not able to talk, not able to go urinals of her own.
Doctors are saying there is no medicine for this .
Please help me to find any soln.

[Gobberfisch]

So CAS9 is like crtl + F for us computer science guys? awesome!

[biswaranjansahoo]

What about hereditary spherocytosis, it can be cure?

[edreyes]

Berkley is in a patent battle over tech our tax dollars funded. Greed will destroy or control the direction of this tech also. Thanks for the content.

[kirankarpe]

I am suffering from duchene muscular dystrophy is there any cur3

[kailuaelbub]

There’s treatment for icthyosis???please answer me😢😢😢😢

[antoniomartin]

GENE EDITING 35000 VIEWS START WITH WHY 26 MILLION WTF?

[varshabajaj]

I am from India how we get casper cas9 please tell me my son suffer from dmd

[kirankarpe]

I am sanchit akhade suffering from duchene muscular dystrophy can it be cured

[christosantonopoulos]

maybe talk about companies asking professional benevolent scientists in military intelligence before implementing things or new ideas and invensions in life.

[vaccinefraud]

You can make a surgical cut and paste of a particular gene to 'edit' it.
Pay no attention to the 100 mutations that it made downstream of the target.

[sudipaich]

Any treatment of genetic dark circles 😭😭😭

[higreentj]

We need to remove all these identified damaging mutations within our species.

[whiskey]

love how they mention only the good parts. no what if x went wrong and now the patient doesnt have essential bodily functions and dies horribly. but still amazing technology i cant wait to see what advances we see soon

[dayanandshinde]

Please Hailey Hailey diseases for information

[opcom]

we don't fix the causes of these defects instead learning to engineer it out from another defective mind... is that how scientifically we decide to evolve? I learnt the hard lesson from my son, he has a genetic condition - the problem is not him (at all!), it it guy like me or Jacob Corn telling that they are the problem to be fixed. I learn allot from my son about our life, he is changing our life for good. You want to fix him?

[dragonore]

Wow great, this is good news, now all we have to do is wait 50 years for FDA approval. Don't you just love government?