DLD Sync, bio technology, biotechnology, George Church, Ellen Jorgensen, Jamie Metzl

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0:10 Intro by Steffi Czerny
4:00 Exponential change in biotechnology – with Covid-19 acting as a catalyst.
10:55 Parallels to 9/11. How deeply will society change?
13:15 The Covid-19 pandemic and the flu of 1918. Will 2020 turn out to be a transitional year in human history?
16:00 Examples of cutting-edge technologies helping to fight the pandemic.
17:30 The importance of testing.
18:20 Benefits of a broader approach and creating a “bio weather map”.
20:00 Distributed biotech and acting locally.
23:45 Why aging affects almost every disease.
27:00 What might humans look like 200 years from now?
30:40 Human evolution could come in all sorts of ways.
33:00 The ethics of gene editing.
40:00 Fighting pandemics on a global level.
43:15 Synthetic biology as a better way to prepare for future viruses.
47:15 Is the “natural world” just a human construct?
50:00 Applications for gene editing. Germline or somatic – what are the advantages of each approach?

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