A Conversation with Great Minds (17 May 2021)
Channel: UN Trade and Development
Date: 21/05/2021

Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna and renowned scientist Katalin Karikó discuss with award-winning journalist Didi Akinyelure the opportunities and risks of breakthrough technologies like CRISPR gene editing and mRNA.

Such scientific advances are being made in leaps and bounds, with the prospects of eradicating pathogens, treating degenerative conditions and growing more food, to name a few.

But important questions arise with such ground-breaking advances. These need to be answered to inform public policy making, especially for developing countries – where many of the challenges that these technologies promise to address are prevalent. https://bit.ly/3uOYsfo