Manoush Zomorodi
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With love, yes, with love.
Or maybe you'll walk with them.
I'm going to – this is not really going out on a limb.
There was like super exciting news in 2025 that the first infant was treated with personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy for a rare genetic disorder.
I think we're going to be seeing more of that.
I think CRISPR, which sounded so weird and strange, cutting out genes and changing our DNA –
is now actually going to start to be utilized.
It's getting so much cheaper to use it.
And Jennifer Doudna recently gave another TED Talk, actually one of the inventors of CRISPR, specifically about gut biome related to asthma and that connection there and whether CRISPR could be a treatment for that, that they were doing trials in that.
So not a huge surprise, but kind of cool, I think.
I'm referring to the movie Gattaca.
Good point.
And to that point, there needs to be ethical guidelines around the use of CRISPR and gene editing.
We'll see where that goes as well.
I'm trying to be more optimistic in terms of the treatment of it, but that is one thing to look out for.
I mean, do we have to say it?
I feel like I did it this whole hour.
AI, AI, so much AI.
I'm just ready for it to go to being, like, normal.
Do you know what I mean?