This segment of TED Radio Hour was produced by Rachel Faulkner and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. For example, a recent Morning Consult poll found that more than three-quarters of Democrats and more than half of Republicans would back legislation holding platforms accountable for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. She is the co-author of the book A Crack in Creation.ĭoudna earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Pomona College and her PhD in biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology from Harvard Medical School. Surveys show Americans are broadly supportive of imposing new regulations on social media platforms. Doudna's work led TIME to recognize her as one of the "100 Most Influential People" in 2015, and she was a runner-up for "Person of the Year" in 2016. Previously, she was a professor at Yale University.ĭoudna has received numerous awards for her work, including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Japan Prize, the Kavli Prize, the LUI Che Woo Welfare Betterment Prize, and the Wolf Prize in Medicine. She is the co-inventor of CRISPR technology. Jennifer Doudna is a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley and a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Today CRISPR is actively deployed in clinical trials with the potential to cure disease-and alter human evolution. In 2011, biochemist Jennifer Doudna helped discover the genetic editing tool CRISPR. ![]() ![]() Part 1 of TED Radio Hour episode Reshaping Evolution
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