In a special episode of Talking Bollox the lads have teamed up with Science week 2024 for a chat about gene editing.What exactly is it? What can it be used for? What are the future plans for it's use and are reports of a future of 'designer babies' true or false?To answer these and many other questions the boys are joined by Annie Curtis, a Professor of Circadian Immunology at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences to brilliantly break it all down.Science Week is a national celebration of science with hundreds of events for people of all ages taking place across Ireland. Science Week 2024 will be taking place from the 10th – 17th November.This year's message is about iharnessing the power of regeneration. The decisions we make today will greatly impact future generations and so it is important to take learnings from the past to inform our decisions for the future.This Science Week, there is something for every generation with events happening all over the country.Let’s celebrate our innate ability to reinvent, rejuvenate and regenerate.

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