How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA | Jennifer Doudna

Did you guys notice the scientist's name ends with DNA i.e. Jennifer Dou-DNA. She is born to invent this. Cheers.

i was 14 and in High school when I heard that DNA affects diseases. I asked my teacher, what if then we change the bad DNA part to a good one to affect the body cells and heal cancer or other diseases? my teacher told me to not think too hard. this video made me cry because it didn't know that this COULD ACTUALLY BE A THING and I wanted to be a scientist to find out how to do it. I wish I could work with scientists one day to perfect this. I study law however.

This reminds me of the movie, "I am legend", "a cure for cancer" became a problem and mutations began

Her speaking skill is just awesome and I am glad that she won the Nobel prize for her discovery

I can't say how grateful I am to be born and to have the opportunity to enter the genetic field in such an exciting era of genetic engineering and how much potential there is for this technology. Just finished VCE and planning on doing a major in Genetics after my bachelor of science.

She's a really good speaker. I love the fact she focuses a lot on ethical implications... a lot of new and advancing technologies really require a lot of thought in how to implement it into public. Lovely talk.

Who is here after she won Noble prize in chemistry 2020 for her work on Gene editing?

Yesterday she got the Nobel prize in chemistry...amazed....

12:03 "No baldness"" Cameraman then went and pointed the camera at a bald guy.

I'm comforted to see a sobering voice of morality in this age of reckless industrialization. Many may see this video, skip the message of caution, and immediately grasp for their share of the "genomic gold rush". People like Jennifer protect us from the potential consequences of such short-sighted greed. Thank you.

She is a monster maker.

I’m listening to this in 2020, and I’ve known about Crisper for over three years. I’ll never forget talking about it in my medical ethics class. While I do believe that it can be used for great good, it can also be used for bad. I’d say probably within the next 5 to 8 years you’ll start to see huge advancements and more use of crisper. One of the biggest issues I have with it though is What’s stopping somebody from just making super humans, or genetically superior humans? If you know how to use it properly, an someone pays you a huge amount of money, or a country decides to start secret trials on it, who’s stopping them? No one. Then you have hybrids or “genetically superior humans” walking around the population, then they breed, start a new generation etc.

Dr. Doudna deserves a Nobel prize for her work on this technology.

This sound surreal, I mean it is so exciting but somehow so familiar, because it is like the first paragraph of every single dystopian sci-fi out there.

This is how they use the control people on Earth to cell phones through the crisper program

Cheers to these people. Nobel Prize well deserved.

I'm already perfect, my mom said.

Brava Dr. Doudna for bringing the ethical issues associated with CRISPR to the attention of non-scientists.

Mark of the beast technology

It pains me to see how radiant she is, how much excitement she feels about this new technology and the possibilities for its use to cure genetic diseases. And yet, fast-forward to 2021, her technology is mainly used to genetically modify our food chain for the profit and market domination of a few biotech and food industry corporations. And no, GM crops are not feeding the world, we have not seen increased growth in yields since their widespread application.