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AI Supercharges CRISPR & LIGO (Nobel Prize Week Preview) (EP. 10)

AI Supercharges CRISPR & LIGO (Nobel Prize Week Preview) (EP. 10)

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Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this two-story,
2.5-hour special sets the table for Nobel Prize Week with deep
dives into two recent Nobel-winning domains—gene editing (CRISPR)
and gravitational waves (LIGO)—and how AI is accelerating both. We
trace CRISPR from bacterial immunity to Stanford’s new “CRISPR-GPT”
lab co-pilot, then pivot to how machine learning upgrades are
pushing LIGO past its noise limits to capture new classes of
gravitational waves. Summary • CRISPR, from bacterial immune memory
to RNA-programmable genome editing • The 2012 Science breakthrough:
guide RNAs unlock programmable editing • The patent saga and the
2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Stanford’s CRISPR-GPT: an AI
“co-pilot” trained on expert lab threads and papers • Experiment
planning, guide design, and safety guardrails for CRISPR-GPT •
Biosecurity and ethical guardrails around AI in biology • LIGO’s
foundations: Einstein’s equations, binary pulsars, and
interferometer engineering • The “noise budget”: seismic,
environmental, and quantum limits • AI-driven denoising and
template generation: unlocking earlier inspirals and tougher
detections • Funding, leadership, and the global policy race to
keep LIGO competitive • Big picture: AI as an amplifier of
discovery in both medicine and physics Show Notes Stanford Medicine
— AI + CRISPR Breakthrough Nature Biomedical Engineering —
AI-CRISPR Original Paper Caltech — AI Helps LIGO Science — LIGO
Machine Learning Paper