CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED
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Published 2023-09-27
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All Comments (21)
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This is so wonderful sounding, and yet at least a million things can go wrong in the hands of those who are not so interested in helping humanity.
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She won the Nobel prize along with her female colleague! My hometown gal!
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I’m a college student and I had the Opportunity to Met Her a week ago at a seminar she gave in San Diego. She was so genuine, and stupendously kind and sweet with everyone, specially with all the young students that wanted to take pictures with her.
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Whenever I hear, "Now we can do A without doing/getting/needing B...", I know that at some point in the future we'll be saying "... but we didn't know that we were going to cause C through Z".
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Dr. Doudna is one of my heroes. Her work has the potential to do lots of good in the world if politicians don't let corporations screw it up.
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I wish she and her scientists peers got far more attention than pro athletes and entertainers and models.
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If only the good people who invented these technologies controlled how they were used.
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Biggest take away here is metagenomics. If we can better understand the links between our health and and micro biome we could change our diets and environments to address these issues in the first place. Then small number of cases where that doesn’t work or time is too pressing due to life threatening illness we can use a tool like CRIsPR
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4:52 “and show that they are safe and effective” Hear the voice change there.
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The obvious incentive to profit rather than actually solve problems are made very clear with this presentation. Rather than looking at environment and other external conditions that cause disease/disorders (asthma) they are instead selling a product designed to change the organism at the very core. The tech is nonetheless impressive and has insane implications for the future if used correctly but we are not close to societal maturity to have such tech at our disposal.
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Raise your hand if you can see a future bioweapon in this particular application of the crispr technology. 🖐️ I’m a bioinformatician, and I’m rooting for crispr all day. I hope really big brains are evaluating and creating solutions against what seem like inevitable use cases.
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What is incredible time in mankind’s history we are privileged to live in.
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This amazing woman should be a household name like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. Even her name ends in DNA. Jennifer was born to do this.
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“CRISPR” IS EVOLUTIONARY!!!! Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier gave it to us. Both internationally recognized in only 10 years! WOW . . . Thank you both!
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Jennifer Doudna will be remembered for 1000s of years. Her work on crispr will change how we treat diseases also cure diseases and extend human life. This is still decades away, but CRISPR is a game changer for humanity if used for good.
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Amazing scientist. I sent this to my kids to learn from her. So proud to know of her work.
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I have a relative who has always had a problem with their gut, specifically it’s a bacterial imbalance that causes him a lot of pain when he eats the wrong foods. I wonder if this is something that could be used to help him on the next couple years. There’s currently no cure for him, only staying away from 99% of foods keeps him from pain
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2621 이하영 I didn't know that technology like CRISPR and metagenomics can change our human society, identifying characteristics of a specific microbiome and precisely editing the DNA. It was a surprise for me to know that these tools can handle climate change and also prevent human diseases. I wish this brand new field of science could develop more so that we can make the world a better place.
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I believe that Precision Microbiome editing is great but the example she gave with the reduced methane production in animals is promoting factory farming. In turn it will promote animal cruelty, deforestation, monocultures, soil degradation and a lot more. The other examples sounded great to me and i hope that it will be focused on problems like these so that it will not only help to build a more resilient future for us as humans, but for the whole planet, with all of its inhabitants. <3
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"Look at all these systemic problems we've created for ourselves. We've designed a new system for solving them all. Nothing could possibly go wrong."
