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Ep150 - Walter Isaacson | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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Using Crisper to Create Soldiers That Don't Feel Pain?

The defense advance research projects agency is the biggest funder of the labs at m i t and at berkeley. If you cross the germ line, it means you're making inheritable edit. Sematic edits just means in the body of the patient. For example, last year a woman named victoria grey had the stem cells of her blood edited so she no longer had sickle cell a disease. It's not an inheritable edit.

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