Author and award-winning journalist Judy Foreman talks with Gary Scott Thomas on this episode of Here’s What We Know. She dives into CRISPR, a technology that can be used to edit genes.
In this episode:
- The ethical questions behind gene editing
- “Curing” Sickle Cell Anemia
- The thought of humans living 120 years
- How she took real science and turned it into her fiction medical thriller CRISPR’d.
- What makes a good villain
Quotations:
“Exercise is medicine.” ~Judy Foreman
“Unintended consequences can be good or bad.” ~Judy Foreman
“We are living longer and longer.” ~Judy Foreman
Guest’s Bio:
Judy Foreman is a former Boston Globe health columnist and the author of three works of nonfiction. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College. She spent three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil and has a Masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Fellow in Medical Ethics, also at Harvard Medical School, and a Knight Science Fellow at MIT. She was a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She has won more than 50 journalism awards including a George Foster Peabody Award and a Science in Society award from the National Association of Science Writers. She swims competitively with U.S. Masters and sings with Boston’s Back Bay Chorale. CRISPR’d is her first novel.
Guest’s Contact Info:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/judy_foreman