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The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enriquez

The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enriquez

The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enriquez

TED Talks Science and Medicine · Juan Enriquez

February 15, 201917m 52s

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Gene-editing tools like CRISPR enable us to program life at its most fundamental level. But this raises some pressing questions: If we can generate new species from scratch, what should we build? Should we redesign humanity as we know it? Juan Enriquez forecasts the possible futures of genetic editing, exploring the immense uncertainty and opportunity of this next frontier.

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