How did life begin? Who wants to live forever? Do you want to know more about CRISPR-CAS9, the Nobel Prize winning gene editing tool? How about the ethics involved in gene editing? Or maybe you’d like to know if you are the next Mozart? Or even how to print a new organ or even cure cancer using alternative treatments? Come join us for a look at a broad range of questions involving the molecules that make you who you are!
Episode Order:
1.) Uri, Stephen, Jake: We Know How Life Began (We Think) (0 – 5:00)
2.) Ana, Cameron, Colin: Immortality: from Mystery to History (5:03 – 9:40)
3.) Federico, James, Tuan: CRISPR: Genetic scissors for XX Century Genome editing (9:41 – 14:36)
4.) Izzi, Grace, Maya: Medical Ethics 101: How to Get Away with Editing Your Baby’s Genome (14:41 – 19:41)
5.) Brennen, Kara, Christina: Musicians: Born or Made? (20:55 – 25:52)
6.) Aziza, Nathan, Rebecca: If you don’t have a leg, make one: prosthetics and 3D printing (25:55 – 30:55)
7.) Lily, David, Ben: Self-medication and Institutionalized cancer treatment in the modern age (30:59 – 35:43)
