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Human Nature [Available on Apple/iTunes, Amazon, and other digital platforms.] A fascinating, educational, eye-opening, layman-accessible, 94-minute, 2019 documentary, which is divided into six parts (1: A Needle in a Haystack, 2: CRISPR, 3: The Gene Machine, 4: Brave New World, 5: Good Genes, and 6: Playing God), that delves into the amazing breakthroughs by scientists in gene editing called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) that will positively affect many areas, including curing diseases such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, thwarting negative impact of climate change, and impacting neonatal DNA, as well as the very real, complex, and ethical issues they raise and consists of interview snippets with sickle-cell patient David Sanchez and his grandmother Dolores, Tshaka Cunningham at Minority Coalition for Precision Medicine, sickle-cell researcher Matt Porteus, biochemists (such as Paul Berg, Alta Charo, Hank Greeley, Jennifer Doudna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier), MIT Technology Review reporter Antonio Regalado, Fyodor Urnov at Innovative Genomics Institute, microbiologists (such as David Baltimore, Francisco Mojica, and Jill Banfield), bioengineer Feng Zhang, former Genomics Danisco director Rodolphe Barrangou, CRISPR researcher Luciano Marraffini, Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley, Syntbego cofounders Paul and Michael Dobrowski, eGenesis cofounder Luhan Yang, geneticist George Church, Jorge Piedrahita of NC State Translational Medicine, Genomic Prediction cofounder Stephen Hsu, genetic counselor Kelsey McClelland, evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley, parents Palmer and Ethan Weiss who have an albino daughter, Revive & Restore cofounder Ryan Phelan, and archaeologist Ian Hodder
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