Editing Our DNA with CRISPR - The Promise and Peril of Rewriting Life
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Overview
Syllabus
- Opening film
- Panelist intros
- Medical applications for CRISPR
- CRISPR’s potential in plants and animals
- Bringing back extinct animals
- Negative aspects of using CRISPR
- Manipulating genes and evolution before CRISPR
- Tinkering and modifying as a part of human nature
- Tools of genetic engineering before CRISPR
- Inspiration from nature in bioengineering
- Have any GMO fears been realized?
- Intro to CRISPR film
- Explanation of CAS9
- What is so revolutionary about CRISPR?
- Benefits of CRISPR for treating non-heritable diseases
- How will we administer CRISPR-altered medicines to patients?
- CRISPR as open-source technology
- Regulating CRISPR use in humans
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