the epigenetics revolution by nessa carey

So if you're looking to get a good understanding of thesetopics, this is a great place to start. NASA's background in scientificcommunication truly shines in this conversation as she provides some of themost succinct and easy to understand descriptions of these topics that I'veever come across. How to thereforeregulate this technology and much more.

We also discuss the existential threatsthat gene editing poses for both our species and our planet. From there, wedive deeply into gene editing and CRISPR discussing the current state of theart, what's possible and what isn't, and how to use gene editing to healdisease and address ecological issues. This includes her 2011 book, TheEpigenetics Revolution and her more recent 2019 book, Hacking The Code of Life.In this episode, we lay some biological groundwork by first discussing theoften misunderstood field of epigenetics, a process wherein our DNA changes howit's expressed constantly throughout our lifetimes, potentially to the pointwhere we might even pass on genetic changes to our offspring.

This week my guest is British biologist Nessa Carey, who hasresearched and written extensively about the latest trends in molecular biologyand biotechnology for several decades. My name is Steven Parton and you are listening to the feedback loopby Singularity. Nessa Carey The potential of thetechnology is so good that it changes the ethical question from Do we have theright to do it too? Do we have the right to withhold it? The really scary thingabout CRISPR in that environment, in the sense of how democratizing it is, isif someone's thinking, I don't want to give myself big muscles, I want to makea really powerful bacterium that really rare these days, and gene editing willmake that so much easier just because gene editing is so good at changinggenomes.

The epigenetics revolution by nessa carey