Walter Isaacson & Jennifer Doudna join Washington Post Live to discuss CRISPR (Live, 3/12)
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2021
- Author and historian Walter Isaacson is known for his biographies on the world's greatest thinkers and innovators. Now, he focuses on history in the making with the story of biochemist Jennifer Doudna, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley, who jointly received the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing the gene-editing technology CRISPR, which is based on a virus-fighting trick used by bacteria that helps cure diseases, fend off viruses and have healthier babies. Isaacson and Doudna will discuss the power of science and the breakthroughs on the way. Join David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist, on Friday, March 12 at 3:00pm ET.
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Great breakthrough indeed. Thanks.
Thank you very much.
Great discussion. Thanks!
Wonderful talk
Unable to attend the original presentation. I am so thankful that this repeat was made available. Both speakers are of the finest measure. /s/ John H.
Like you the timing of the live stream did not work for me. Like Carol I really appreciate the rebroadcast.
The Book is AMAZING. Just finished it . Code Breaker is a must read. Isaacson is a marvel and helps the average person understand science.
Same here. The book expounded on other books I’ve read regarding the origin of life. Great read.
The calmness, pinpointing to the topic, I love this conversation. Thank you so much or making this available for us.
Great interview , bravo to all of them
Due to the out break off Covid 19, I was interested in understanding the virus. I look for documentation were I could learn what and how this manifested in our world. Scared the heck out of myself, I then was asked by Amazon if I would like to per order this book "Code Breaker" by Walter Isaacson. Title was a little miss leading as to the subject, but after reviewing the book. I so had to have this. It explained everything about viruses, and wished I would have been aware of this as a younger person, I believe I would have wanted to research this as a career. My hat goes off to Jennifer and Emmanuelle, and your teams. Wow and a Nobel prize, congratulations to both of you. Walter Isaacson, another one out of the park... Might be your best book ever, congratulations for explaining in terms that make it easy to follow.
John
This technology, together with the James Webb telescope, represent the extremes of human examination and understanding. I wonder if this will put an end to nonsense thinking, religion and belief in conceptual entities.
Is Jennifer Doudna the Robert Oppenheimer of the 21st century?
Jennifer Doundna is a biologist QUEEN. As a bio B.S. major, we learn about her findings in all of our major classes.
Interview starts at 1:53
2:30 acronym
I say shes the holy grail ! A true God within the All
What we should have learned from the Chinese CRISPR babies case is that this technology will be ever more available to ever more people, and some of those people will ignore any rules or guidelines and do whatever they want. In other words, gene editing technology is about to released "in to the wild" of the human community, and will thus exist to some degree beyond any ethical rules or laws which anyone may establish.
Thus, the question which most deserves our attention is, how much damage to the human race and the environment can be inflicted by gene editing technology when in the wrong hands? That is, what is the price tag for all the benefits gene editing will surely deliver? Without a clear understanding of the price tags involved we are flying blind, and have no idea if the benefits are worth pursuing. Thus, there is currently no rational cause for celebration.
Oh my, she was oppressed growing up...
Jennifer Doudna is the present day Albert Einstein of biology. It's an honor to be alive at this time.
Get the book! Read it. Walter is less a historian as much as a story teller.
Elisabeth Shue can be jennifer in a biographical movie in some years
The precondition for gaining advantages from diversity in the future is necessarily to continue staying divers and not giving up the ethnic diversifications that nature created within the human race. Tendencies in the western world of interbreading and thereby growing uniformity might end in a sort of developmental stagnation. Weighing Prof. Doudna´s arguments on creativity and collaborational success it seems apparent to her that the high value of divers ethnicity and divers cultural identity has proven in her work to be a key to human progress. Did I take that right ?
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Guilt. That’s what I see. She knows
Reading a script even?
Has the interviewer read the book? Many of the researchers were women!
Jennifer came up in the 1980s which was a time well into the inclusion of women.
The interviewer should focus on the subject instead of wokeness. The science is fascinating.
Is CRISPR connected with covid vaccines also based on mRNA and DNA technologies so vigorously forced upon people of the world?
Yes, the importance of the outsider. In the context of this topic an outsider would be someone who has nothing to lose from inspecting and challenging the science culture group consensus, the "more is better" relationship with knowledge. If one has nothing to lose, no income to risk, no career or reputation on the line, then one can follow the logic of a situation where ever the logic might lead.
The guests here appear to be very intelligent and articulate experts well versed in their fields. I don't doubt they are fine people too.
But they aren't outsiders. They aren't free to challenge the "more is better" relationship with knowledge which is the foundation of the scientific enterprise. They are constrained by their success to color pretty closely within the lines of science culture philosophy. Were they to venture too far beyond those constraints, the book deals, grants and prizes would soon dry up.
It's admittedly unreasonable to expect any successful person to put their success on the line in pursuit of inconvenient truths, but that is the price one must pay if loyalty to reason is one's highest priority. And if loyalty to reason is not one's highest priority, is one really a scientist?
We're on the verge of giving an ever growing number of people the ability to re-arrange DNA, so it's a shame this interview is wandering in to the subject of diversity.