#43 - Project Extra: Genetic Revolution

The Aidan Project

In this edition of Project Extra, Ran Levi explains the hugely exciting developments in gene editing, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), which has the potential to transform human biology as we know it. CRISPR (pronounced "crisper") is a biological gene editing system for reconfiguring DNA. The concept was discovered in 2012 by molecular biologist Professor Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, who told the BBC last year, “I never want to over-promise but I feel diseases will be cured and we want to enable clinicians and scientists to bring that to a reality." Aidan has previously recorded two full-length podcast episodes with Ran, most recently, episode 40 – ‘Downloading a President’, and episode 11 – ‘Malicious Assured Destruction: Cold War to Cyber War’. Ran’s new podcast, ‘Malicious Life’, has topped the iTunes charts in Israel and is available at www.malicious.life. You can tweet Aidan with your thoughts @theaidanproject.