Name: 028: Cracking the Genetic Code with Kevin Esvelt by The Show About Science
Duration: 11 min 22 s
Description: Kevin Esvelt leads the Sculpting Evolution Group at MIT. Their work explores “evolutionary and ecological engineering and responsive science.” Kevin joins Nate on the program to help him with some homework and to discuss a tool for gene editing called CRISPR.

Nate, I'm so happy that you're doing this podcast.  It's really interesting.  You have a special talent for making science fun for everybody!  By the way: when I was little, I used to say "flutterby" instead of "butterfly."  

Proteins are one of the main drivers of human diseases. Scientists are now mapping all of the proteins in the human body in a similar way to how the Human Genome Project mapped genes. On this episode of The Show About Science, Neil Kelleher, PhD invites Nate to his lab on the campus of Northwestern University to explain how it all works.

Learn more about Neil's work here: http://proteomics.northwestern.edu/

091: Proteins and Proteomics with Neil Kelleher

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Kevin Esvelt leads the Sculpting Evolution Group at MIT. Their work explores “evolutionary and ecological engineering and responsive science.” Kevin joins Nate on the program to help him with some homework and to discuss a tool for gene editing called CRISPR.

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028: Cracking the Genetic Code with Kevin Esvelt

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Seventeen-year-old Jack Bergeson may have been too young to vote, but he wasn't too young to throw his hat into the 2018 Kansas Governor's race. Jack is currently working on a book about his historic candidacy, which he hopes to have out later this year and he joins Nate on this episode of The Show About Politics to share his experience.

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On March 15, 2019, tens of thousands of students around the world skipped school to protest their governments inaction on climate change. On this episode, Nate meets up with Joe Hanson, the host of It's Okay To Be Smart and Hot Mess on YouTube to talk about why this issue has become so divisive.

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On this episode of The Show About Politics, we visit The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Located within the former Texas School Book Depository building, the museum chronicles what happened to John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Our tour guide for this episode is Lindsey Richardson, the museum's Curator of Collections.  This episode is the first part of a two part series recorded at the exact location where everything went down on that fateful day in November.

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A scientist from Budapest who immigrated to the US in the 1930s. A beloved and common pet store fish. And a researcher looking at genes that suppress the growth of cancerous tumors. On this episode of The Show About Science, these three worlds serendipitously collide to lead to a discovery that would help us understand one of the most important things in human history.

Joining Nate on the show are Keith Cheng, the Principal Investigator of the Cheng Lab at the Penn State College of Medicine, and Máté Varga, a professor at Eötvös Loránd University in the Department of Genetics.

Learn more about Dr Cheng:
http://chenglab.io

https://www.scienceintheclassroom.org/research-papers/golden-fish-reveals-pigmentation-loss-europeans

Read Máté Varga's article about the life and work of George Streisinger:
https://thenode.biologists.com/doctor-delayed-publications-remarkable-life-george-streisinger/careers/

To read and/or write your own amazing ministories, head on over to https://amazingministories.org. I can't wait to read the awesome stuff you write!

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028: Cracking the Genetic Code with Kevin Esvelt

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