- We do not advise that
anyone watching this video,
do what what is about to be done here.
These compounds are not
for human consumption.
They are for research purposes only.
(soft piano music starts)
- [Male Voice 1] Our
civilization is vulnerable.
It's not sustainable.
We have no choice but to continue
exploring the tree of knowledge.
But, we always run the risk
of discovering something
that we can not handle.
- [Male Voice 2] We can take
a gene from one organism,
put it in another,
and make a medication that could save
a bunch of people lives.
- [Male Voice 3] It's
assumed that getting DNA
and making changes and stuff,
cost millions of dollars.
And that you needed a huge
lab and a research team.
You'd be surprised what
there is on YouTube.
- [Male Voice 1] CRISPR
was the starting gun.
Lets you edit just about any gene.
- [Male Voice 4]
Alzheimer, Cystic Fibrosis,
could be diseases of the past.
- [Female Voice] He's missing both copies
of the RPE 65 gene.
He will eventually go completely blind.
- [Male Voice 2] And what
kind of world can we build?
- [Female Voice 2] The
risk of humans undermining
their own existence are very real.
- We are developing gene
therapy technologies
to help people take the
health of their lives
into their own hands.
- [Male Voice 5] There need to be rules,
don't even put gene drives into the wild.
- [Male Voice 6] Gene drives could cause
irreversible ecological damage.
- [Male Voice 7] It's amazing,
the things that we could do with this.
The question is, should we?
What happens if diseases
were just eradicated?
- [Male Voice 8]
Technological breakthrough
that could change the future of mankind.
- This is truly experimentation
on human beings.
- [Male Voice 9] These cells
can regrow your kidney.
- Bio-hackers actively
working on it themselves.
- [Female Interviewer] How many injections
have you given yourself?
- [Male Voice 10] We are in
control of our destinies now.
- If you're really playing God,
you don't care what other people think.
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