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At the same time, there'sdevelopment of CRISPR-Cas9 by Jennifer Doudnaand Emmanuelle...

At the same time, there's
development of CRISPR-Cas9 by Jennifer Doudna
and Emmanuelle Charpentier, which allows
direct modifications to really any organism, human beings included
in principle

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At the same time, there's development of CRISPR-Cas9
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by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier,
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which allows direct modifications
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to really any organism,
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human beings included in principle.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
53
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:44
Uploaded
Mar 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Diamond Docs

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A Chinese biophysicist disappears after developing the first designer babies, shocking the world and the entire scientific community, but an investigation shows he may not have been alone in his experiment to create "better" human...
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[indistinct] Gene editing [indistinct] a problem
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