Modern Wisdom

#533 - Matthew Cobb - Should We Genetically Edit Human Life?

Oct 1, 2022

01:23:21

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Genetic Engineering - The Production of Anti Cancer Drugs

03:10

Genetics - What Are the Biggest Close Calls?

04:34

COVID-19 Vaccine

02:50

Introduction

5min

The Perilous Quest to Edit Life

5min

Genetic Engineering - The Production of Anti Cancer Drugs

3min

Is There a Cultural Acceptance of Genetic Engineering?

4min

The Difference Between Could and Should

6min

How to Regulate Access to DNA Synthesizers

5min

Genetics - What Are the Biggest Close Calls?

5min

COVID-19 Vaccine

3min

Genetically Modified Viruses

2min

10.

The Fundamental Issue With the Biological Weapons Convention

4min

11.

CRISPR - What's the Fourth Pause?

3min

12.

IVF - Is There a Third Child?

6min

13.

Crispr

3min

14.

Do You Want to Edit Your Embryo?

3min

15.

What's Horrible About IVF?

4min

16.

Is CRISPR Safe?

3min

17.

Genetics Course - Is There a Blue-Eyed Child?

2min

18.

Eye Color Is So Complex That You Can't Tell From Eye Color

2min

19.

Gene Therapy

3min

20.

Are You Concerned About the Gene Therapy?

3min

21.

CRISPR Gene Drive

4min

22.

What Is Target Malaria?

3min

23.

What's a Gene Drive?

5min

24.

We Are Gods, a Moral History of the Genetic Age

3min

Matthew Cobb is a zoologist, professor of zoology at the University of Manchester and an author.

Genetic engineering has given humans the ability to modify crops to be resistant to disease and synthesise insulin without needing to kill and extract it from animals. But what are its dangers? Especially in a world where CRISPR and human gene editing is just around the corner.

Expect to learn whether we can select and edit embryos to increase IQ or athletic abilities, the biggest close calls we've faced with bioweapon leaks from labs, why there has been 4 complete stops on genetic engineering worldwide when the research community has got scared at what they've discovered, the dark truth behind those two Chinese gene edited girls and much more...

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