Genome Editing and CRISPR - Will It Kill Or Save Humanity? / Episode 5 - The Medical Futurist

The genome editing method called CRISPR-Cas9 is an experiment that can fundamentally change not just our health, but human evolution itself. It has both wonderful potentials and frightening possibilities - just like the discovery of nuclear fission, which created both nuclear power and atomic bombs.
That’s why CRISPR is the nuclear fission of biology.
Learn about the threats and opportunities CRISPR holds for us: biohackers, designer babies, bioethics of DNA changes, gene editing against deadly diseases, and maybe even Jurassic Park.
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[@charit90]

Love, death and robots was awesome, I agree!

[@penguin0101]

Crispr babies and their descendants should be tagged and documented to ensure comprehensive longitudinal study. Drug allergies, future gene evolution, disease propensity etc...

[@penguin0101]

We should experiment this with animals, this is the ethical thing to do for the better of humankind

[@Fabelot1]

Well presented! I don't think anyone would miss the point you're making. We live in a wonderful and scary time! Did you ever work with CRISPR yourself?

[@Medicalfuturist]

Thank you! No, my genomic research focused on other technologies.

[@adelguerrot]

Great vidro Bertalan. The nextflix series about gene editing is great. Crazy how science is evolving. I ordered my whole genome sequencing from Dantelabs. Curious to see the possible uses with that information in the near future.

Many thanks! I'll check it out too!

[@crisprtalk6963]

so are you buying stock?

[@goragabdula8203]

Awesome!

[@country_roadsWV]

Thank you sharing the dangerous realities of this.

[@StephenGoodfellow]

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[@RandomNooby]

I feel you have missed the most important difference between CRISPR and nuclear weapons, nukes are available to half a dozen out of 7 billion, CRISPR is available to several billion out of 7 billion

[@Medicalfuturist]

Good point! Another difference is that nukes could impact the lives of billions while CRISPR will probably impact the lives of a handful of people.

[@RandomNooby]

@@Medicalfuturist again I have to disagree, which is unusual for me after watching your vids, gene drive CRISPR would effect 7 billion as it would spread

[@Medicalfuturist]

@@RandomNooby No worries, that's ok. :) I meant that nukes would definitely impact the lives of billions right away. For CRISPR to have the same effect, it might take decades.

[@KARENboomboomROXX]

@@Medicalfuturist honey, millions of ppl have been injected with it since December last year. We will likely all be dead in a couple of years

[@penguin0101]

Interesting. Can I do this for grapes to produce the best vineyards for wine?

[@penguin0101]

I don’t understand how it could cure congenital disease, when say a baby has that dna in all of its cells. How does one ensure that all affected cells have its DNA rescripted

[@Nk-uk8pf]

Will it be hiv negative after taking this treatment?

[@Medicalfuturist]

In theory, yes.

[@Nk-uk8pf]

@@Medicalfuturist When can I get this treatment?

[@YesMyNameIsDonovan]

@@Nk-uk8pf you can't... this is a germline edit. That means that the master genome of the embryo was edited to disable the CCR5 gene (which allows retroviruses to affect T-cells). There is no way (since you are a fully grown organism with many millions of cells) to edit all of the cells individually. Organ-specific edits may be programmable in years to come, but until then it remains out of reach.

[@Nk-uk8pf]

@@YesMyNameIsDonovan What do you mean

[@s_naeemnaqvi8725]

@@Nk-uk8pf HIV can't be cured in living adults with this method

[@shimmerysun]

If T-Rexes start roaming the earth again, I'm noping the heck out of here!