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You can actually use CRISPR in humans to change DNA
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You can actually use CRISPRin humans to change DNA

You can actually use CRISPR
in humans to change DNA

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You can actually use CRISPR in humans to change DNA.
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00:31:57
Uploaded
Jun 10, 2025
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documentary
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Sandbox Films,News and Guts Films,The Wonder Collaborative

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A breakthrough called CRISPR opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. A provocative exploration of its far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it
Here's a copy of a human gene. - Human Nature 00:05
Here's a copy of a human gene.
You give it to Cas9 and put it inside human cells. - Human Nature 00:06
You give it to Cas9 and put it inside human cells.
It runs away, finds that DNA, and cuts it. - Human Nature 00:04
It runs away, finds that DNA, and cuts it.
-Before CRISPR, we were getting 1% to 2% correction. - Human Nature 00:05
-Before CRISPR, we were getting 1% to 2% correction.
This could really cure a patient. - Human Nature 00:07
This could really cure a patient.
-I think it's gonna help a lot of people, - Human Nature 00:10
-I think it's gonna help a lot of people,
And I know so many other people - Human Nature 00:07
And I know so many other people
He...uh, had leukemia. - Human Nature 00:05
He...uh, had leukemia.
He actually--he didn't make it out of the hospital. - Human Nature 00:04
He actually--he didn't make it out of the hospital.
If he had it just a little bit later, - Human Nature 00:10
If he had it just a little bit later,
-CRISPR has, really, the ability - Human Nature 00:09
-CRISPR has, really, the ability
It's really a universal tool. - Human Nature 00:04
It's really a universal tool.
-We have thousands of customers - Human Nature 00:12
-We have thousands of customers
Specify a gene that you're looking to knock out. - Human Nature 00:05
Specify a gene that you're looking to knock out.
You can specify the types of edit - Human Nature 00:05
You can specify the types of edit
You swipe your credit card, and a few days later, - Human Nature 00:07
You swipe your credit card, and a few days later,
Obviously we like to validate the researchers' authenticity - Human Nature 00:09
Obviously we like to validate the researchers' authenti...
There were cars before there were Model Ts, - Human Nature 00:07
There were cars before there were Model Ts,
Ford comes out with the Model T, and, suddenly, - Human Nature 00:07
Ford comes out with the Model T, and, suddenly,
-CRISPR gives us the chance to make precise, - Human Nature 00:09
-CRISPR gives us the chance to make precise,