
CRISPR
Gene-editing approach mentioned as a tool to knock out genes in vivo.
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Videos Mentioning CRISPR

E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
All-In Podcast
Mentioned as a technology for genetically engineering cows to reduce methane emissions.

Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space | Lex Fridman Podcast #283
Lex Fridman
A gene-editing technology that was once pure research but has become a massive therapeutic for diseases.

E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
All-In Podcast
The FDA-approved CRISPR treatment for sickle cell anemia is highlighted as a significant, under-recognized science breakthrough of 2023, offering gene edits to fix the condition disproportionately affecting the Black population.

Relentless Focus, Full-Contact Entrepreneurship, Epigenetic Reprogramming, and More
Tim Ferriss
A gene editing technology, mentioned as an area of biology where tools are starting to make it feel more like engineering than pure science.

Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #262
Lex Fridman
A gene editing technology, presented as a "perfect example" of an extravagant scientific discovery emerging from studying strange, anomalous biological data like weird sequences in bacterial genomes.

#118 – Lloyd Klickstein, M.D., Ph.D.: Rapamycin, mTOR inhibition, and the biology of aging
Peter Attia MD
Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats, a Nobel Prize-winning technology for gene editing, used as an example of basic science with unexpected practical applications.

Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and The Rolling Stones | Lex Fridman Podcast #259
Lex Fridman
A gene-editing technology, part of the underlying scientific work at Colossal beyond just bringing back extinct animals.

The Science of Psychedelics for Mental Health | Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris
Andrew Huberman
A gene-editing technology mentioned as an example of potential directed gene therapy, offering excitement for conditions like Huntington's disease, highlighting the rapid advancements in medical science.

Investing with the Best, Founder-Problem Fit, Pre-Mortems and Pre-Parades, and More — Roelof Botha
Tim Ferriss
A genetic engineering tool that Roelof Botha is fascinated by, enabling precise treatment of human diseases.

Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #247
Lex Fridman
A gene-editing technology, mentioned as one of the suite of tools for human genome editing, and central to the birth of the first 'CRISPR babies.'

All-In Summit: Gene therapy and a new era of medicine with Dr. Nicole Paulk
All-In Podcast
A gene-editing technology mentioned as a tool used for gene therapy.

Terry Crews — Masculinity, True Power, Therapy, and Resisting Cynicism
Tim Ferriss
A gene-editing technology discussed in relation to Jennifer Doudna and Walter Isaacson's book 'Code Breaker'.

#33 – Rudy Leibel, M.D.: Finding the obesity gene and discovering leptin
Peter Attia MD
A gene-editing tool that could hypothetically be used to delete and edit intronic patterns in animals to understand their impact on obesity phenotypes.

E1: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, VC & Public Markets with David Friedberg
All-In Podcast
Gene-editing technology mentioned in the context of scientific discovery and its potential in advancing personalized medicine.

E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
All-In Podcast
A gene-editing technology that, since its advent in 2012, has provided a more efficient and cost-effective toolkit for editing microbial genomes to improve protein production in synthetic biology.

Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston
Y Combinator
A gene-editing technology that Geoff Ralston finds shatteringly important and believes will be incredibly significant, even though he's not a biologist.

Bringing Back the Mammoth: A Conversation with Ben Lamm (Episode #394)
Sam Harris
A gene-editing technology that has become a common term for all genetic engineering, though Colossal uses a combination of tools.

Tim Urban of Wait But Why
Y Combinator
Gene editing technology mentioned as an example of rapid advancement in biotechnology, drastically reducing the cost and increasing accessibility.

Josh Waitzkin - The Cave Process, Advice from Future Selves, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
Mentioned as a technology that could be used to design pathogens for pandemics, contributing to potential destabilizing events in the future.

There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed
Y Combinator
Mentioned in the context of a large-scale artwork at MIT, highlighting the speaker's lack of direct expertise but ability to collaborate.

Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #93
Lex Fridman
A gene editing technology used in experiments to introduce mutations and study their effects at the cellular level.

#70–David Sinclair, PhD: How cellular reprogramming could slow our aging clock, & the latest on NAD
Peter Attia MD
A gene-editing technology mentioned in the context of engineering out undesirable genes in embryos, though not directly part of Sinclair's reprogramming research.

E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
All-In Podcast
Gene-editing technology, used in a UK lab to edit transplant T-cells to eradicate an uncurable form of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a 13-year-old girl, heralded as a major breakthrough.

Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks | Lex Fridman Podcast #193
Lex Fridman
A gene-editing technology, noted as not being available during the 2011 H5N1 gain-of-function experiments, which were achieved through simpler methods.