The possibilities, in terms of medicines and also in terms of producing food, are enormous.īut by the very fact that it’s relatively cheap and relatively easy to do, it’s going to be very hard to regulate. This means that its benefits can be with us very, very quickly.Īlready, I understand, there are people who have been cured of sickle cell and other blood related illnesses. I was lucky enough to meet Doudna, in 2017, at a conference in London, and I got very interested in the whole thing.Ĭrispr is an absolute breakthrough because it's so accurate, it's relatively cheap, and it's relatively easy to do. When I heard about this, I thought, well, actually, it's going to make a meritocracy something quite savage.īut I was excited by it as well. If you’re of my generation-I'm 66-a lot of what's happened in the world has, in one way or the other, been to do with struggles against unjust hierarchies, class systems, colonial systems, castes according to skin color.
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