SciShow: 4 Ways CRISPR Is More Than Just Gene Editing

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Content of the Lesson: While it’s probably most famous for its role in gene editing, CRISPR does more than just that: its ability to precisely cut and alter DNA could lead to new antibiotics, faster diagnosis tools, and more. Hosted by: Hank Green. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Marwan Hassoun, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/press-release/ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/816 https://www.livescience.com/58790-crispr-explained.html https://www.idtdna.com/pages/support/faqs/which-repair-pathway-is-most-commonly-used-to-repair-crispr-mediated-double-stranded-breaks-nhej-or-hdr https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/stewardship-report/pdf/stewardship-report.pdf https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a685015.html https://www.livescience.com/44201-how-do-antibiotics-work.html https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/community/about/antibiotic-resistance-faqs.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5725362/ https://disruptionhub.com/destroying-disease-crispr/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/04/17/106060/edible-crispr-could-replace-antibiotics/ https://www.asmscience.org/content/journal/microbiolspec/10.1128/microbiolspec.BAD-0013-2016 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28959937/ https://www.cdc.gov/cdiff/what-is.html https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.04.20091231v1 https://blog.addgene.org/finding-nucleic-acids-with-sherlock-and-detectr https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-018-0028-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-019-0210-2 https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Fact-Sheet https://www.organdonor.gov/statistics-stories/statistics.html https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/transplant-waitlist https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88959/ https://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/learning/pig-valve-replacement/ https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/xenotransplantation https://www.nature.com/news/new-life-for-pig-to-human-transplants-1.18768 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6357/1303 https://retrovirology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12977-018-0411-8 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6264/1101 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4997577/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5932395/ https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Retrovirus https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/diseases/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/transmission/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/07/17/why-this-adorable-mouse-is-to-blame-for-the-spread-of-lyme-disease/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6452264/ https://www.statnews.com/2019/08/22/lyme-disease-community-guided-genome-editing-project/ https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/vector-borne-diseases Image Sources: https://bit.ly/34obJ3l https://bit.ly/3amD49S https://bit.ly/2LNiTIb https://bit.ly/3akas1d https://bit.ly/2LHTm2V https://bit.ly/3nw39aj https://bit.ly/3p1UOM6 https://bit.ly/3p09OKj https://bit.ly/3gVHsOu https://bit.ly/3atinZU https://bit.ly/2LB6yXh https://bit.ly/37to7RO https://bit.ly/2J05WK3 https://bit.ly/388IO4w https://bit.ly/3gXCHE1 https://bit.ly/2Ki4V0i https://bit.ly/34oFSzz https://bit.ly/3nyoUGz https://bit.ly/2J3keJU https://bit.ly/38cGkCi https://bit.ly/3am8VHO https://bit.ly/3p5hyKS https://bit.ly/3r9ABWg


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