welcome everybody. i am walter isaacson, and you re about to enjoy the most important session you will hear at the aspen ideas festival this year. it is about the most important technology that will affect our lives, crisper technology crispr technology that will allow the editing of the human genome. it is about the most important moral question you and your children will face, which is to what extent should we allow this technology to edit human genome. with me is the author of a crack and creation. more importantly she is author of a 2012, scientific paper that is basically explaining how crispr or crisper cas-9 crispr test nine, can be used cas-9 can be used in the human genome. we will talk about the implication of what that means, especially as we edit the human germline, and allow it to be passed on to our children. but before we get to the ethical implications i thought we should start a little bit with the narrative of how you got there. i think on this sta
that will allow the editing of the human genome. it is about the most important moral question you and your children will face, which is to what extent should we allow this technology to edit human genome. with me is the author of a crack in creation. more importantly she is author of a 2012, scientific paper that is basically explaining how crispr or crisper cas-9 crispr test nine, can be used cas-9 can be used in the human genome. we will talk about the implication of what that means, especially as we edit the human germline, and allow it to be passed on to our children. but before we get to the ethical implications i thought we should start a little bit with the narrative of how you got there. i think on this stage, some of you remember, we had dr. james watson, and francis crick of the double helix dna, and one of the main things he did was he wrote a book about how he got there. and i think of that when you were 12 years old your father but that by your bedside.
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