SoT 319: Number Five Is Alive
Channel: Science on Top
Date: 14/12/2018

SoT 319: Number Five Is Alive
https://scienceontop.com/319

NASA's InSight probe lands on Mars, with a slew of instruments to analyse what the red planet is made of.
Against all conventional knowledge, mitochondrial DNA is sometimes inherited from the father.
Professor He Jiankui announced he's created the world's first ever gene edited babies using the CRISPR-Cas9 technique. His claims of HIV immune babies are extraordinary, but mired in contention amongst ethical and procedural controversy.

Jo Benhamu is a Clinical Research Nurse with a Masters in Bioethics.

This episode contains traces of Sir David Attenborough speaking at the COP24 UN conference in Katowice, Poland.

https://scienceontop.com/319

Chapters:
00:02:27 Mars: Nasa lands InSight robot to study planet's interior https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46351114
00:17:43 Not Your Mom's Genes: Mitochondrial DNA Can Come from Dad https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/dads-mitochondrial-dna/
00:28:01 A Reckless and Needless Use of Gene Editing on Human Embryos https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/first-gene-edited-babies-have-allegedly-been-born-in-china/576661/