Bill Maher

Thank you.

So he assured me that the...

his words, that the NIH funding for mRNA vaccine research for oncology for cancer has not been cut.

What was cut, he said, his words, it was the $500 million put towards mRNA vaccines for upper respiratory illnesses that was set aside from Project Warp Speed, which people forget was a Trump initiative.

I'm not trying to, what do the kids say, glaze or glow up or what?

I'm not trying to, but we should remember that that was part of the Trump administration.

Absolutely.

And I think that the mRNA vaccines, the label has caused a lot of people to say, I don't want anything to do with those.

But I just had an oncologist on my podcast.

The potential...

to eradicate cancers using technologies like those or others like CRISPR is so exciting.

And the way this is gonna work is not by testing on humans.

It's going to be by harvesting a T cell.

So you can actually go in and add genes and modify genes.

A Nobel Prize was given to you.

Why is it called CRISPR?

The CRISPR-Cas system is an enzyme system that can get and insert and cut and repair DNA at specific locations.

CRISPR has been used to successfully treat certain childhood cancers.

Now, I should say that's by taking cells, modifying their genes, and reinserting those cells, which works very well in the immune system.

Well, it holds... Sometimes it is.