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#077 Rewriting genomes to eradicate disease and aging | Dr. George Church

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Using Crisper to Eliminate Viral Spill Over Events From Live Stock to Humans

There's a lot of viruses that originate from from live stock when we're raising animals in captivity. The fda recognized this decades ago, and really was, i think, pleased to see progress being made on eliminating them from the germa line of the pigs. But zoonotic diseases is bigger than that. If we could make a a huge fraction of plants, animals and humans resistant those viruses because of their genetic code that actually anticipates viruses we haven't even seen yet, it should handle all natural viruses.

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