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People get comfortable with technologies.
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The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.
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Realize
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I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.
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Myself I Am See
Model
Role Model
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The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.
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Profound
Affect
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I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.
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Basic Research
Desire
Focused
Motivated
Research
Basic
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In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.
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Therapy
Tools
Correction
Gene
In The Past
Targeted
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Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.
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Embryos
Ethical
Edit
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I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.
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Math
Nerdy
Outcast
Type
Me People Loved
Pretty
Loved
Geeky
Teased
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I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.
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Fields
Stem
Subtle
Effective
Unfortunately
Pursuing
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One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.
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Leadership
Women
Biotech
Roles
Change Women World
Change Leadership World
Walk
Lack
One Of The Problems
Problems
See
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As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve.
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Evolve
Understanding
Predict
Biologists
Works
Hoping
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Virus
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The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.
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Implications
Labs
Scientists
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We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked.
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Break
Dna
Protein
Molecule
Programmed
Sites
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Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20-base-pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells.
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Bacteria
Billions
Editing
Genome
Pairs
Target
Base
Efforts
Enable
Gene
Locate
Specific
Types
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One can envisage taking cells from a patient with sickle-cell anaemia or an inherited blood disorder and using the Cas9 system to fix the underlying genetic cause of the disease by putting those cells back into the patient and allowing them to make copies of themselves to support the patient's blood.
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Allowing
Cells
Copies
Disease
Disorder
Patient
Fix
Envisage
Genetic
Inherited
Underlying
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There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.
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Technology
Active
Causes
Disease
Normal
Normal Life
Research
Now
Lot
Fix
Genetic
Muscular
Mutations
Patients
Provide
Repair
Using
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