welcome to sophie and conan sophie shevardnadze genetics and biology are promising to bring about revolutionary changes in the way humans lead and as we learn today how to change our d.n.a. i mean the possible implications are just mind blowing from getting rid of diseases to programming on born babies today i sat down with a revolutionary scientist and molecular engineer dr george church to talk about that. professor george church thank you very much for being on our program today so genome sequencing and gene editing is something like the internet in the eighty's on the brink to explode those are your words so do you mean to say that soon genome editing will be just like surfing the news on a sunday morning with a cup of coffee. it's possible i mean it's hard to rule out that scenario just like they're really. drugs. without prescription that might be one of them right well that's not the case but there are many. pharmaceuticals that we were without thinking about them much so when you say that you know managing is on the brink of explosion what exactly do you mean. well this is it is both re