FBL97: Nessa Carey - Epigenetics & Gene Editing

This week our guest is British biologist, Nessa Carey, who has researched and written extensively about the latest trends in molecular biology and biotechnology for several decades now. This includes her 2011 book, the Epigenetics Revolution, and her more recent 2019 book, Hacking the Code of Life. In this episode, we lay some biological groundwork by first discussing the often misunderstood field of epigenetics, a process wherein our DNA changes how it's expressed throughout our lives. From there we dive deeply into gene editing and CRISPR, discussing the current state of the art, what’s possible and what isn’t, how to use gene editing to heal disease and address ecological issues, the existential threats gene editing poses for our species and planet, regulation, and much more. Find out more about Nessa and her work at nessacarey.co.uk ** Learn more about Singularity: ⁠⁠⁠su.org⁠⁠⁠ Host: ⁠⁠⁠ Steven Parton⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠ Twitter⁠⁠⁠ Music by: Amine el Filali

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FBL97: Nessa Carey - Epigenetics & Gene Editing is an episode from Singularity Radio by Singularity University.

This episode is 00:53:14 long.

This episode was published on Apr 17, 2023.

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