Beth Shapiro
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Like, I can't agree with this person because they once said this thing.
I mean, why can't we have just a normal conversation like you and I are having right now?
So they can't actually do any science.
But is it the same biological?
And we're focused on something else.
The thing is the foundation for what we're doing, all of the stuff from sequencing ancient DNA to gene editing technologies to learning how do we link certain DNA sequence changes to the way something looks.
This stuff is all out there anyway, right?
Like CRISPR technology exists.
We're not working on humans, but other companies are openly, right?
I think maybe that was two separate stories because I know the story about Jiang Ke.
That's He Jiang Ke was the name of that scientist.
And he went to jail for three years.
He actually did some training in the U.S.
But he was trying to make, trying to use gene editing tools to...
to make these babies have a particular mutation that we know is protective against HIV.
It's the one that stops the HIV from entering the cells where it then kills the cells.