Designer Babies and Dystopian Hellscapes: The Future of Gene Editing With CRISPR

The future is here, and it's terrifying. Join the boys as they learn all about the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9. What's with the crazy acronym, how swole can a chicken be, and when will Duncan get his prehensile tail? Find out on the latest DNA-snipped, biologically enhanced episode of MFFI. 

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In this episode:  

• Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats
• Genetic Scissors
• Streptococcus Pyogenes
• Bacteria: The Real Hero
• Yoshizumi Ishino
• Francisco Mojica
• Cas9
• Emanuelle Marie Charpentier and Jennifer Anne Doudna
• DNA/RNA/crRNA
• Cas12a
• Sickle Cell Treatment
• Victoria Gray
• CRISPR Crops
• Memphis Meats
• The GMO issue
• HIV and Cancer Treatments
• Challenges

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