Dr. Jennifer Doudna discusses gene-editing at the Institute for Int'l Studies

Thursday, February 21, 2019 - Hosted by the Institute of International Studies, as part of its Endowed Elberg Series, UC Berkeley professor, Dr. Jennifer Doudna, spoke at UC Berkeley's International House about the revolutionary gene-editing tool she co-invented, called CRISPR-Cas9.
From the IIS website:
Our technological capacity to make changes to genomic data has expanded exponentially since the 2012 discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as an RNA-programmable genome editing tool. Over the past seven years, this genome editing platform has been used to revolutionize research, develop new agricultural crops, and even promises to cure genetic diseases. However, ethical and societal concerns abound, requiring a thoughtful and ongoing discussion among scientists and stakeholder groups.
Dr. Jennifer Doudna is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley and is Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Professor in Biomedical and Health. She is a member of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018, Doudna received a Medal of Honor from the American Cancer Society.
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian, Stephen McNally, and Tatiana Kesenci
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[@keithwilhelm5286]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge of the code of life.

[@shwetashekhar7464]

this was really a great presentation.....

[@FranckDernoncourt]

Regarding 42:46 : What advantages could there be for using the unseen variant chosen by He Jiankui instead of the naturally occurring CCR5-∆ 32 mutation?

[@hayel2015]

Great

[@sandynelson918]

Why is it that almost every research study excludes people who have had MS for a long time (20+ years)?

[@avawhite7515]

Oh my god! I would give everything to go to biotechnology and work on something like that.

[@richb2752]

Ava I so agree. What a Beautiful video.

[@StephenGoodfellow]

​Posted at: facebook.com/groups/crisper/
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[@geonerd]

This is the one technology that holds the hope of saving humanity - from itself! A slight tweaking of our genome would make us less violent, more rational, and far less likely to wreck our planet in one way or another. But I fear that the tech will, like all others before it, fall into the 'wrong' hands and be used to create super soldiers, obedient sheeple, etc. Will we have the wisdom to use gene editing for our own betterment??

[@richb2752]

Humans are naturally driven to control nature and then other humans with that controlled nature.
Look at nuclear physics.

[@ulisesbernales5969]

Only God thru Jesus can save us

[@animekid5993]

Jennifer Doudna did not discover CRISPR - but claims all the credit

[@andrewbufalo1675]

Proof

[@alanmoore9734]

Soul destruction 101.

[@alokvkulkarni]

Next Nobel laureate

[@garvitkabra8605]

Wow.. indeed

[@melvinmorales1349]

I guess you were correct.

[@fred-bd8oh]

mRNA vaccine????