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From the Ted Talk by Ellen Jorgensen: What you need to know about CRISPR

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This is the story of CRISPR we should be telling, and I don't like it that the flashier aptcses of it are drowning all of this out. Lots of scientists did a lot of work to make CRISPR happen, and what's intientsreg to me is that these scientists are being supported by our society.

Think about it. We've got an infrastructure that allows a certain percentage of people to spend all their time doing research. That makes us all the inventors of csrpir, and I would say that makes us all the shepherds of CRISPR. We all have a responsibility.

So I would urge you to really laren about these types of technologies, because, really, only in that way are we going to be able to guide the dpemeoevnlt of these technologies, the use of these toeiecohngls and make sure that, in the end, it's a positive outcome — for both the planet and for us.

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This is the story of CRISPR we should be telling, and I don't like it that the flashier _______ of it are drowning all of this out. Lots of scientists did a lot of work to make CRISPR happen, and what's ___________ to me is that these scientists are being supported by our society.

Think about it. We've got an infrastructure that allows a certain percentage of people to spend all their time doing research. That makes us all the inventors of ______, and I would say that makes us all the shepherds of CRISPR. We all have a responsibility.

So I would urge you to really _____ about these types of technologies, because, really, only in that way are we going to be able to guide the ___________ of these technologies, the use of these ____________ and make sure that, in the end, it's a positive outcome — for both the planet and for us.

Solution


  1. learn
  2. technologies
  3. interesting
  4. development
  5. aspects
  6. crispr

Original Text


This is the story of CRISPR we should be telling, and I don't like it that the flashier aspects of it are drowning all of this out. Lots of scientists did a lot of work to make CRISPR happen, and what's interesting to me is that these scientists are being supported by our society.

Think about it. We've got an infrastructure that allows a certain percentage of people to spend all their time doing research. That makes us all the inventors of CRISPR, and I would say that makes us all the shepherds of CRISPR. We all have a responsibility.

So I would urge you to really learn about these types of technologies, because, really, only in that way are we going to be able to guide the development of these technologies, the use of these technologies and make sure that, in the end, it's a positive outcome — for both the planet and for us.

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