Guests:
Laura Hercher, Host, The Beagle Has Landed
Nathan Pearson, Genomicist; Founder, Root Deep Insight
Chapters:
0:00 How prime is Prime Editing?
9:50 The Inscripta move
18:18 The Vertex win
22:16 Can 'Medicare for All' preserve a system of innovation?
30:06 Ancestry.com’s move into health
41:50 CCR5 retraction; mitochondrial Eve
48:10 Was Ewan Birney et al blog on race and genetics helpful?
Our Halloween show this year summarizing October’s genomics news has more tricks and treats than spooks and scares. It’s Nathan and Laura back to sift through a big month of happenings from the cool CRISPR upgrade to Inscripta’s bold move in gene editing to Ancestry.com’s shift into health testing.
It’s all here, right now, on Mendelspod.
