• Should We Be Afraid of Gene-Editing?

  • Apr 29 2024
  • Duración: 30 m
  • Podcast
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Should We Be Afraid of Gene-Editing?

  • Resumen

  • In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jianku sent shockwaves through the world’s medical and scientific world when he claimed to have made two children immune to HIV using a powerful gene-editing technology called “CRISPR”. After a three-year prison sentence, Jianku is back in the lab, but should he be experimenting with human genes?

    Ray Suarez talks with Dr. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles Professor Emerita of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, about the ethics of CRISPR, and the opportunities and risks of the technology.

    Guest:

    Dr. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles Professor Emerita of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

    Host:

    Ray Suarez, host of World Affairs

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