Emily Chang meets Nobel Prize-winning scientist and University of California, Berkeley, Professor Jennifer Doudna to discuss the origins of CRISPR, other breakthroughs in gene editing and what Silicon
She answered these questions exactly as I thought she would. Composed, respectful, but honest and based on evidence based medicine. Us biologists are hardly hyperbolic in our beliefs.
Seems like the only person in Silicon Valley that’s not full of s***. I genuinely enjoyed listening to her, very intelligent, realistic, and matter of fact. Gives hope and explains awesome stuff going on in science but doesn’t over hype and even suggests some stuff is over hyped.
Thank you! I'd like to thank everyone involved in getting us these Emily Chang productions. The content is always interesting, and the production quality is the best, making it great to consume.
One of the most fascinating things to me about us is how we made technology that is so similar to biology without either of them knowing about each other. Mitochondria and our power turbine systems are mechanically very similar, for instance. Another area that is very similar is CRISPR and how computers work. Computers are base two while DNA is base 4. But, to find things in a very large set of bits (1's and 0's), we use a mask that defines what we're looking for, scan the array of bits till we find a match of our map and then we remove or change those bits or do whatever we need in that area of memory. It's called bitmap masking and works somewhat similar to CRISPR but without the controversy. In a way, we rediscovered (more than once) what bacteria discovered billions of years ago.
Now this, is both great journalism and awesome scientific research. Frau Jennifer Doudna is a great example of keep the politics out of meaningful and serious matters such as scientific research. Wishing her all the success in her endeavors.
Doudna has a great depth and clarity in her character. She emulates the vibes like Carl Sagan.
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