Designer babies, agricultural mishaps, extinction via gene-drive. Now CRISPR has placed into our hands the awesome power to "edit life" in all its forms, how to keep the good while preventing the bad? How to safeguard our future? Is this even possible?
Welcome to FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe, futurist and keynote speaker, where we interview scientists and explore pathways to a better future. In this episode, I ask Jennifer Kuzma, global expert on biotech responsibility, to shed light on one of the most important governance challenges of our time: how to put guardrails around CRISPR.
Jennifer is Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences and co-founder of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center at NC State University, and contributes frequent public commentary in the New York Times, Wired magazine and countless other magazines and journals. She cares, and she’s working hard to create a better future!
It’s such an important topic and our conversation covered a lot of ground, so I’ve put compiled a fulsome post on the website with links to the examples and case-studies we discussed, and tons of further reading to explore. You’ll also find the full interview transcript there.
Learn more about my work as a futurist speaker.
See you in the future!
Designer babies, agricultural mishaps, extinction via gene-drive. Now CRISPR has placed into our hands the awesome power to "edit life" in all its forms, how to keep the good while preventing the bad? How to safeguard our future? Is this even possible?
Welcome to FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe, futurist and keynote speaker, where we interview scientists and explore pathways to a better future. In this episode, I ask Jennifer Kuzma, global expert on biotech responsibility, to shed light on one of the most important governance challenges of our time: how to put guardrails around CRISPR.
Jennifer is Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences and co-founder of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center at NC State University, and contributes frequent public commentary in the New York Times, Wired magazine and countless other magazines and journals. She cares, and she’s working hard to create a better future!
It’s such an important topic and our conversation covered a lot of ground, so I’ve put compiled a fulsome post on the website with links to the examples and case-studies we discussed, and tons of further reading to explore. You’ll also find the full interview transcript there.
Learn more about my work as a futurist speaker.
See you in the future!