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Science Fact or Fiction?Author: Chrissie
Welcome to Science Fact or Fiction? A podcast all about your favourite science fiction stories and how accurate the science and technology have turned out to be. We will delve into everything from cloning dinosaurs to alien contact, designer babies, and high tech suits. Listen to Manon and Lance as they roast one another, go off on tangents, and generally have a good old laugh. Language: en Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Ep 7: Gattaca and Designer Babies
Episode 7
Sunday, 27 September, 2020
This episode is all about the technological innovations from the world of Gattaca. Gattaca was shot in the late 90’s, a time when the world of genomics was exploding, scientists were trying to map the human genome and everyone had grand ideas about what the future of personalised medicine and gene therapy would look like. In this episode Manon tells Lance all about where the current technology is at. Are designer babies a possibility? What does it mean to be able to sequence the human genome and where are we in terms of eradicating genetic diseases? This is the final episode for the season. Thanks for listening. BYEEEEE Intro Music by Woody Rolph. Links: https://theconversation.com/gene-editing-needs-to-become-more-precise-to-live-up-to-its-promise-123845 https://theconversation.com/designer-babies-wont-be-common-anytime-soon-despite-recent-crispr-twins-108342 https://theconversation.com/how-a-scientist-says-he-made-a-gene-edited-baby-and-what-health-worries-may-ensue-107764 https://theconversation.com/should-we-edit-the-genomes-of-human-embryos-a-geneticist-and-social-scientist-discuss-100355 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07559-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07559-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52jOEPzhpzc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1AINMKV0ztaqMoJQIeo5yvXu9qXKCX6XRY9hAaNUngSTnyiZdFuy_oys0&ab_channel=MicrobiologySociety
