Episode 141:To Edit or Not to Edit: the Morality of Genetic Engineering

On October 7, 2020, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their revolutionary discovery of CRISPR-Cas9. With this groundbreaking discovery and advancement in genetic engineering, many individuals have started to question the morality and ethics behind the implementation of CRISPR-Cas9 and more importantly, what it could mean - genetically modified human beings. To discuss this, Katia and Max Hauser give their perspective.  
Anika Hauser reports. ​