S13E1 - Catching Up on the CRISPR Craze with Rodolphe Barrangou

About this episode

This episode discusses the impact and implications of CRISPR technologies in various fields including medicine and agriculture.

Recorded from NC State’s GES Colloquium, this podcast examines how biotechnologies take shape in the world: microbiome engineering in built environments, gene editing and gene drives, forest and agricultural genomics, data governance and equity, risk and regulation, sci-art, and public engagement in practice. _________ Catching up with the CRISPR Craze Nelson 4305 + Zoom | Deploying and commercializing genome editing technologies: challenges, opportunities, and implications of disruptive technologies The advent of CRISPR-based technologies has revolutionized our ability to manipulate the genetic content of organisms across the tree of life and democratized genome editing across the globe. Repurposed from obscure adaptive immune systems in bacteria, CRISPR molecular machines have been broadly deployed in academia and industry in the past 10 years to manipulate the genomes of organisms relevant to medicine, biotechnology, and agriculture. We now have access to a portable CRISPR toolbox enabling flexible editing from a single nucleotide to large-scale genome manipulation in organisms that span minimalistic viruses to large trees and their corresponding genome range and complexities…

People in this episode

Host: Patti Mulligan

Guest: Rodolphe Barrangou

Topics covered

• CRISPR
• gene editing
• biotechnology
• microbiome engineering
• genomics
• data governance
• public engagement

Keywords

• genome editing
• gene drives
• risk and regulation
• sci-art

Mentioned in this episode

Products: the CRISPR Craze Nelson 4305 + Zoom, CRISPR toolbox

Books & works: Catching Up on the CRISPR Craze, Canada Gairdner International Award, MS, MBA

Places: France, Compiegne

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