TechNation Radio Podcast

Episode 596: Episode 24-42 The CRISPR Babies


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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Anthropologist EBEN KIRKSEY, a professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s looked at the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR – and not just hypothetically. He travelled to China with an eye to understanding the circumstances of the three CRISPR babies known to exist. His book is “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft gives us a quick primer on antibodies and how we use them as therapy.

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