What Is the Future of Gene Editing? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why

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Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking technology. “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time. For more episodes visit Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/the-joy-of-why/ --------- 00:00 Intro: What is CRISPR? 02:37 Meet Jennifer Doudna 05:50 Why Doudna chose RNA over DNA 09:39 Did RNA come before DNA? 10:44 How RNA research led to CRISPR 13:00 What CRISPR Cas9 actually does 17:45 From bacterial immunity to gene editing 19:56 Why the discovery of CRISPR changed everything 24:27 Steve & Janna break down the science 28:14 CRISPR Moves from lab to clinic: Baby KJ 31:52 The

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