How ironic is that? Yeah, I'm just telling you what I learned. So basically my infection can get an infection, which is crazy. Okay, so you said CRISPR is gene splicing. Tell us what that is exactly. Yeah,

it's gene splicing or gene editing. In short, while studying bacteria, these scientists discovered that bacteria have a part of their DNA called CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Palindromic? Like a palindrome? Like the word race car? I think so. And just as a total aside, my favorite palindrome is go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog. So palindromes are when it's the same, when it reads the same

backwards and forwards. So race car is the same backwards and forwards. And apparently so is go hang a salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog, which is, you gotta wonder how they figured that one out. That's almost as impressive as discovering the ability to edit genes while looking for something else. You

talked about these very specific kind of nerds that celebrate mitochondrial Eve. I think palindromes are probably discovered by a different kind of very specific nerd. I think you might be right. Yeah, so this CRISPR stores a tiny piece of a virus's DNA, and the next time the virus comes back, this CRISPR snips out a piece of the DNA and destroys it. So these two scientists wondered, why can't we use that technique to cut out genes

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them with genes that are wanted. And do you mean in humans? In anything. As I said, this is a huge leap forward. And as such, this technology comes with a huge ethical concerns.