CRISPR CAS – Life’s processing tool

Gene editing technology allows humans, for the first time, to
change the code of life with a precise editing system offering the
potential for curing genetic diseases. The gene editing field is
moving with impressive speed: after the seminal paper on the
technology was published in 2012, the Nobel Prize awarded for the
technology in 2020, and the first therapy approved for treatment of
blood diseases in 2023. In this episode of We’re doomed, we’re
saved Andreas Horchler and Louise von Stechow, discuss the
tremendous potential of the technology, but also its darker side –
the high cost of the therapeutic applications and the potential for
augmenting, altering, and redesigning human genomes.