The Greatest Medical Discovery Ever with Tyler Owens

Wanted to try something new on the show, so I reached out to my friend Tyler who is also a fellow pre-med I went to school with. I remember we met volunteering at a science fair and just started talking about surgery and medicine so I was like he'd be awesome on the podcast. Today we talk about arguably the greatest scientific and medical innovation ever: CRISPR. For those who aren't familiar with it, CRISPR is basically a tool that lets you edit people's genes. You can basically treat any condition from sickle cell to maybe one day diabetes by just cutting out and replacing the right genes. Now it's in its very early stages right now, but one day in the not so distant future we will be able to edit these conditions. Tyler did research with CRISPR and knows way more than I do about it, and he shares the countless applications of it, including self-repairing concrete, ending hunger, making antibiotics, and more. We also talk about the ethical considerations, for which there are many.

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