Jenny Kleeman
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443 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 15 Jul
Jenny Kleeman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So we must make sure we're at the front of it.
Thank you so much.
This is The Guardian.
Cathy Tai is a serial entrepreneur.
She was a Thiel Fellow, which means that she accepted a fellowship from the entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the billionaire Peter Thiel, to drop out of university aged 18.
So she never went to university and she started working in biotech startups.
And she has a new startup that seeks to do germline gene editing.
It seeks to be allowed to edit the genes of embryos and maybe eggs before they're implanted.
And she says she's doing it in order to stop really serious diseases like sickle cell anemia or Huntington's disease.
But she has a history of working for companies that want to use gene editing for other purposes.
For example, only recently, she was the CEO of a company that made designer pets that was trying to make glow-in-the-dark bunny rabbits, trying to genetically engineer horses so that they become unicorns, things like that.
So she's shown that she is interested in the idea of using gene editing for enhancement as well as disease prevention.
Well, I think creating a unicorn is quite difficult because it involves a lot of different genes.
But the actual gene editing process isn't that difficult.
If you're only looking to edit out or correct one gene, a very specific gene, there's a tool called CRISPR that's been around for 15 years now, which you don't need to be a
particularly experienced biologists to use.
If you know the right sequence of DNA, you can seek it out and change it.
The actual technology is not that complicated to use.
But what is complicated is the regulatory framework, because in most countries around the world, doing this on human embryos is banned.
Yes, he's called He Jun Kuei.
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