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On Shifting GroundAuthor: World Affairs
Geopolitical turmoil. A warming planet. Authoritarians on the rise. We live in a chaotic world thats rapidly shifting around us. On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez explores international fault lines and how they impact us all. Each week, NPR veteran Ray Suarez hosts conversations with journalists, leaders and policy experts to help us read between the headlines and give us hope for human resilience. A co-production of World Affairs and KQED. Language: en Genres: Government, News Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Should We Be Afraid of Gene-Editing?
Monday, 29 April, 2024
In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jianku sent shockwaves through the world’s medical and scientific world when he claimed to have made two children immune to HIV using a powerful gene-editing technology called “CRISPR”. After a three-year prison sentence, Jianku is back in the lab, but should he be experimenting with human genes? Ray Suarez talks with Dr. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles Professor Emerita of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, about the ethics of CRISPR, and the opportunities and risks of the technology. Guest: Dr. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles Professor Emerita of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison Host: Ray Suarez, host of World Affairs If you appreciate this episode and want to support the work we do, please consider making a donation to World Affairs. We cannot do this work without your help. Thank you.
