Jenny Kleeman
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443 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 15 Jul
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And that's been around for about 15 years.
This technology has been possible.
From what I understand, it's not actually difficult to do.
The problem is the tools have made mistakes in the past and they've caused... It's called mosaicism.
They've caused unintended changes, consequences, genetic changes that aren't quite what's intended.
But apparently the newest generation of these tools can be quite precise.
So it's quite a new field, relatively speaking, and it hasn't...
We know that it's only been used to our knowledge once before, and that was in human beings, and that was with He Zhenghui.
Because at the moment, the rules are you're not allowed to use gene editing on a human embryo older than 14 days of gestation or one that has a chance of one day being implanted and being born as a human being.
Yes, experiments are going on all the time.
They're also going on quite a lot with animals.
all over the world these experiments are happening although actually they're not so much happening in universities in america there is a moratorium on doing this research in universities and this is kathy's argument because because universities can't get funding to do this research it's only private companies that can do it so she's saying that she's flying the flag for science by
having a private company that is doing this research that has the potential to transform the lives of people who are the carriers of these very serious genetic diseases.
Well, some of the most wealthy people in the world are pouring their money into this kind of research.
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, who owned ChatGPT, and his husband, they have invested in a company called Preventive, which is another gene editing startup that seeks to prevent the same sorts of diseases that Cathy is seeking to prevent.
The CEO of Coinbase is also an investor in Preventive, and he's spoken quite openly, this guy called Brian Armstrong, about what might be possible in the future.
He calls it a Gattaca stack.
Gattaca is this famous movie from the 90s with Ethan Hawke in it about a kind of dystopian future where people are genetically engineered.
He says in the future, people will have babies using embryo selection, gene editing, artificial wombs, various other technologies that we'll be using to make our families.
Yes.
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