Hack your DNA, and change your destiny. Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene editing tool that can eradicate diseases, and maybe one day even enhance our looks, personalities, and abilities. How does it do that, and are we ready for it? Host Joshua Lim finds out what conditions he could be passing down to his children with a DNA test, and questions if CRISPR could write them away. He meets some dengue-destroying mosquitoes, and anxiety-relieving vegetables that have been genetically edited with CRISPR. He also finds out why many are still hesitant to adopt this revolutionary biomedical technology. despite its accolades.

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About Why It Matters: Technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate. It is transforming the world we live in faster than ever before. Our inquisitive host Joshua Lim is back on a mission to sniff out the emerging trends and technologies, to ask the questions you have always wanted to ask, and some you have never even thought about.
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