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#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

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The Future of Human Genetic Engineering

In November 2018, Ho Zhang Kuei announced in Hong Kong that the world's first two, and later three, CRISPR babies had been born. As machine learning gets better and better at predicting the full complexity of biology, so as one gets better than you're editing your ability to reliably edit such that the conclusions are predictable is getting better and better. "I wrote about that in my two science fiction novels," he says.

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