The Genius of Accidents: CRISPR - Episode 5

Having a fast and easy way to cut out and replace genes could
revolutionise areas of biology as diverse as medicine and
agriculture. And the discovery of the gene editing tool using
CRISPR-cas9 makes that revolution a present reality. But the
teams that revealed this gene editing tool piece by piece were
not looking for anything to do with genetic engineering: instead
they were curious to know more about how bacterial immunity
works.


Presenter Adam Hart speaks with Professor Jennifer Doudna of the
University of California, Berkeley, and Dr Rodolphe Barrangou of
North Carolina State University to reveal the story of how
scientific curiosity can accidentally change the world.


Produced by Rory Galloway. First broadcast on Friday 27 July
2018.