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Biochemist - Jennifer Doudna

Biochemist - Jennifer Doudna

The Interview vor 8 Jahren

Does the co-founder of the gene editing tool Crispr Cas9 fear for where it may lead?

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Sarah Montague speaks to biochemist Jennifer Doudna. Crispr Cas9
has been described as the greatest biological breakthrough in
decades. It is a gene editing tool and the hopes that rest on it
are immense - that it can be used to cure cancer and other
intractable diseases, stop mosquitoes carrying malaria, create
drought resistant crops and food that does not rot, even that it
can recreate extinct animals. What does she make of the
breathtaking pace of innovation since her discovery and does she
fear where it may lead?