Fighting Cancer with CRISPR

23/05/2024 34 min Temporada 1 Episodio 97
Fighting Cancer with CRISPR

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Last year, the FDA approved a treatment for sickle cell disease using a revolutionary new gene editing technology called CRISPR. Rachel Haurwitz conducted pioneering research on CRISPR as a graduate student. Now she’s the co-founder and CEO of Caribou Biosciences. Rachel's problem is this: How can you improve CRISPR and use it to engineer human immune cells to fight cancer? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.