it is called personal genetics education. i incurred everyone -- i encourage anyone interested to look it up. they outreach to groups that have been traditionally excluded , you know,cs understanding what genetics is all about. how it affects you personally. i think what she is doing is very important because her mission is to be inclusive. i think the only way we can proceed is to have, you know, an open community of people to get involved. it cannot just be the elites doing something and everybody else, you know, trying to figure it out. i think it really has to be a societal in global effort. i think they have been doing a great job. >> the history of science, there has been a was no example of advances in technology and thence out running processing power to deal with them. you can argue the atom bomb. a few examples. this, to me, is one of the closest calls we are going to have an hour lifetimes. i am glad you are part of the discussion. thank you. [applause] >> the book is available, so find it. i say. [indiscernible co

in basic research in genetic technology. does that sound right? dr. doudna: that sounds right my own colleague, we struggle here in the united states, i'm at berkeley, one of the top research universities, but we struggle to put together money to buy equipment like electron microscopes, another field that's gone through a huge explosion over the last few years in advances of the technology and meanwhile we see our colleagues in china buying up, you know 20 at a time. and you know, it's really astounding. walter: and you need that microscope to figure out r.n.a. dr. doudna: absolutely. walter: suppose we had cone this , years ago and stopped eisenhower had not done it and we hadn't invented the transcystor, had not invented the microchip, has not -- had not invented the laser, had noten invented the internet, had not been able to do circumstance, g.p.s. that sort of thing, that's what would have happened if we hadn't done the basic research on semiconducting materials, those things. and someplace like russia or china had actually invented everything fr

and what is purely genetic or encoded? >> it is hard to give you a specific answer, but many people think traits having to do with our personality and how we interact with our environment. that is a consequence not just of the genes in our dna but the way those genes are used. >> things like particular diseases or childhood obesity is more genetically determined? >> that is what people believe, yes. >> said you are doing study on dna and atomic structure, and as i read from the book, another great woman, a biochemist, give you a phone call out of the blue. she said to you, "we are doing c krispa and how it relates to rna, do you want to be a part of it?" >> yes, she was a june biologist, not a biochemist. she works on bacteria and where .hey go in the environment her research has uncovered a lot answers about the series of sequences in dna. what was quite interesting about this pattern of sequences is that it included a series of unique sequences which were derived from viruses. the question that she had but was not suppos

create a genetically modified human embree yow. next, we'll hear from u.c. berkeley biologists jennifer doudna, author of "a crack in creation: gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution." she's calling for a moratorium on the use of the new gene editing tool technology she helped create. she sat town with walter isakson at the aspen institute to talk about some of the scientific and moral implications of this technology. >> welcome everybody. i am walter isaacson, and you're about to enjoy the most important session you will hear at the aspen ideas festival this year. it is about the most important technology that will affect our lives, crisper technology -- crispr technology that will allow the editing of the human genome. it is about the most important moral question you and your children will face, which is to what extent should we allow this technology to edit human genome. with me is the author of "a crack and creation." more importantly she is author of a 2012, scientific paper that is basically explaining how crispr or crisper cas-9

warinner: the genetics were incredibly stable through time.his was fascinating to us because we saw big changes. for example, between the mebrak and the samdzong period, we suddenly see defleshing. that's a new thing, that's a religious change, and yet we don't see any change in the underlying genetics of the population. narrator: but researchers have spotted one genetic change specific to high-altitude peoples of the himalaya. it's an ancient mutation, or gene variation, a change in the order of the chemical bases-- the as, ts, cs and gs that make up the gene. the variant prevents people from getting sick at high altitude where the available oxygen is low. warinner: there are a few places in the genome, a few traits in which we have experienced very recent evolution. so one of these would be the adaptation to high altitude. there's only a handful of these genes that are very, very recently undergoing selection, and this is one of them. narrator: most of the himalayan people that live here now have this variant. the team wants to know if the a

if you have something that needs to be treated, the genetic counsellor would consult with the primary care physician, then the genetic counsellor would give the results back to the patient and tell them what they look like. >> kate rogers. >> thank you. >>> jobs in brick and mortar retail has shrunk. box has grown from 30 employees to 300 the ceo launched the company as an online version of a warehouse club, kind of like costco meets amazon, but for millenials thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> you are kind of like a warehouse club but kind of not >> you take costco, bjs, and sam's club as ubiquitous as they are, they are not everywhere if you have less than a million people in your town you might never get access to wholesale savings. we help folks with that. >> how did you come up with that idea? >> i grew up in the burbs but every other weekend i would go with my parents growing up to go and stock up. >> you liked it. >> yeah but later on in life i didn't have a car to get to a warehouse club i felt lake millions of others might have this problem luckily over

and more and more genetic counsellors are needed across the country.artment of labor projects a growth rate of 29% through the year 2024. kate rogers has more from danville, papa. >>> as a college student studying biology, megan mcminn thought she wanted to become a physicians candidate. but a desire to interact even more with patients led her to genetic counselling. >> it gave me a good split between patient care and the hard science research end of things. >> at geisinger hospital genetic counsedowllors are on the front lines of patient care. with genetic testing counsellors fast enough. >> we will hire hundreds of counsellors. they will become a key member of the team when discussing with patients and families what to do next. >>> geisinger is home to the my code community health initiative one of the largest biobanks of human dna of its kind. the effort is led by amy sterm, detectivor of genomic counselling a of the the hop and hopes to help not only patients but their families. >> we are developing a program the look through all of the dna code to

genetic counselors. kate rogers shows us where the jobs are from danville, pennsylvania. >> as a college student studying biology, megan thought she wants to become a physicians assistant, but a desire to interact with patients led her to genetic counseling. >> it was a good split between patient care and hard science research. >> in danville, she sees about six patients a day, working in on kole ji. soon, she'll move on to a cardiology clinic the field of genetics has grown dramatically over the past decade, touching off aspects of health care and now, counselors like mcminn are in demand with labor estimating the occupation is set to grow nearly 30% by the end of 2034. >> there weron't be enough ounselorers information. >> counselors don't need to be doctors, but need mast erers degrees, making on avera year. salaries can reach up to $250,000 annually, depending on location and specialties. the national society of genetic counselorers is doing its part to spread the word in my and high school about gen

advances in genetics are changing that, and doctors say it's just the start. with tonight's "keeping you healthy" report, here's nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> reporter: mother of three sarah ellis will never forget her darkest days battling depression. >> i was at several points like this is it, i can't do this anymore. >> reporter: she tried anti-depressants, more than a dozen. attempting to stay on each for the six-week trial doctors recommend. the side effects were debilitating. >> i was very sluggish, very fatigued. my sleep was disordered. >> reporter: like so many battling depression, years passed, trying drug after drug. >> that particular drug -- >> reporter: until dr. matthew stanley recommended a genetic test to see why her body wasn't responding. >> it can tell me if you're going to have difficulty with metabolizing a drug i might prescribe. >> reporter: avera institute for human genetics in sioux falls, south dakota, is among those at the cutting edge of pharmacogenomics, looking at how genetics influence the way we process medications. >> we'll hone

, a lot of research going on. >> also genetic? >> yes, 6% of the population the rest of it is sporadic or idiopathic, parkinson's, we don't fully appreciate why people get those, a lot of farmers get it with exposure to insect sides the most clear thing we know now in the genetic form, you can appreciate the targets a little bit better than you can in the more sporadic or i hdiopathic forms. >> you've created miracles before found miracles before, you're working at light ning speed what is the best case and sir toshio for how quickly something could get resolved >> the best case scenario, create four different biotech companies and my hope is to get two different drugs into human clinical trial next year if those are successful, we'll be able to open up to larger clinical studies. >> that sounds like a long process for those going through that but that's incredibly quick for getting fda approval and human trials. >> one of the beauties ever being in venture capitals, you make a lot of friends and they are willing to help giving th

so, of course, you might be concerned that you changed other part of the genetic code. the other being that you couldn't necessarily get every cell to take up the edit you were trying to achieve. both of those things are important before you move to a clinical setting. >> sreenivasan: so they addressed both of those in this particular experiment. >> this study was successful in not having either of those two things happen. >> sreenivasan: okay, so, who stands to benefit the most here? i mean, in this particular case, we are talking about a heart condition. but could this be applied to the 10,000 different diseases that are on a single gene somewhere? >> so, in theory, this could be applied to any kind of a single-gene dell fect. you know, so certainly, this would be, you know, an important thing, an important advance for any kind of a clinical trying trooil that you'd like to do correcting a single-gene problem. >> sreenivasan: now, that's where kind of if you can modify a single gene, i think people are going to be concerned, could you mott modify it not just to get ri

if you think of human diseases, genetic traits, nd if you have knees common genetic traits you're prone to an illness, and an illened can or me an 'em democratic plague rather quickly. that's how it's spread. he only way to avoid it is by vaccinating yourself. so you don't get hit by this weakness. the true defense to such a plague is a lettro population where u a cantic mix so the infection and occcurtailed to a group not spread across an entire community. a re is too much skew off very similar type of technology sed globally across enterprises. >> so to put this in if a logical terms, company has one computer system all connected with each other, can be more dangerous than systems?ifferent >> let me rephrase what i said. like a is kind of paradox. if an organization has the same same type puters or of operating systems on all all of them s, and only a patched, or if few are not patched necessity become an entry point. a beachhead l find on one of these systems, and hen they will try to spread through the internal network. once they are inside it's very laterally.ead they can move acro

the parents of a seven year old boy — with a rare genetic disorder — have won the latest stage in theird be life changing. the child, known as s, has a rare condition which inhibits his ability to digest protein. the nhs has refused to fund a drug which could help control his condition on the grounds that it was ineffective. but a high courtjudge rejected that conclusion, as our legal affairs correspondent clive coleman reports. seven—year—old s, we cannot give his name for legal reasons, has the rare condition pku. if he has more than 12 grams of protein a day, which you would find in three slices of bread, he could suffer permanent brain damage. he also has severe autism and can't talk and so managing his diet is exceptionally difficult. s's nhs consultant applied for him to have a drug called kuvan which allows him to have more protein, but it costs £100 a day and nhs england has refused to fund it on the basis its clinical efficacy had not been established. that led to today's legal challenge. we are pleased that we have won the case. it has been a difficult two years trying to get

it's a genetic disease. i think we haven't taken some of the approaches that we've taken now, so there's never been a gene therapy approach going after gba. there's never been stem cell therapy going after gba. and we think these are really smart ideas and the targets are addressable. >> natalie, just when you first heard about this and what you've done since then, what's the response you've gotten from the community, from starting the foundation? >> well, obviously when you tell family and friends that this is happening, we're a young family and part of a large community, the response has been sort of overwhelming. but what's incredible is you put yourself out there with something like this and people that you don't know come out of the woodwork. there have been people reaching out offering ideas, offering support. so i think what's really great and what i try and tell my kids is when you help other people, you help yourself. so we're doing this not just to find a cure for jonathan but hopefully for everyon

i have a phrase called the genetic book of the dead. the g and said a modern and all that describes the past as a digital description of the world of our ancestors of the past survived. not the present for the future. in the merchant properties mean it will be very different with our changing environment data break that -- breakneck pace in the way it is amazing we do thrive so well in this environment that is rapidly different in which our genes survive in the past. we have close and huge cities, fast cars, we do suffer from psychological problems because the world is so different this all comes under the heading to the merchant. >> that is very beautiful with the timeframe than the cosmic time frame talking about the past that we are responding so with that rate of change why has that increased? that because of the numbers?. >> is increasing. . . a computers we are living in an astonishingly fast changing world, and it's showing no signs of slowing down. >> two questions related to that. if c. is, it seems we are driven by our own too

out attributes like an elevated risk for low iron. >> we're talking about metabolic tes, they're genetic test but they effect the way you metabolize various substances you consume. dna test for diet and exercises are not validated. >> dave -- >> are any of these test accurate? >> there's very few that have data behind it. you have companies like 23 and me that were taken off the market because they had to show data with regard to human disease. i think the same thing needs to happen with nutrition and exercise. >> your iron status -- >> castle says the test produce more than 30 pages of results about her body. >> i think it's worth it. you don't need your blood taken. you're spitting into a test tube. you can do it in your sleep. >> they can avoid the foods that set off her stomach. michelle miller, cbs news new york. >> the fda says it support test that may provide consumers with direct -- the agency doesn't regulate these products. >>> the one and only roberta gonzalez keeping an eye on the solar eclipse. >> take a look at your tv screen over there. over there. can you see the clock? w

it's a little bit like populations and the genetic makeup. if you think of human diseases, you have common genetic trait. and if you have these common genetic traits, you are prone to an illness, and an illness can become an epidemic or plague rather quickly, and that's how it's spread. the only way you can avoid it is by vaccinating yourself so you don't get hit by this weakness again. but the true defense to such a plague is a high dodge now population so the infections kind of stay curtailed to a group and don't spread across an entire community. that's kind of what we've seen with the digital landscape. there's too much skew of a very similar type of technology used globally across enterprises. >> host: so to put this in technological terms, if a company has one computer system all connected with each other,s that can be more dangerous than having different systems? >> guest: so let me rephrase what i said . be -- and this is kind of like a paradoxical area. if the organization has the same type of computers or same type of operations sys

this is the closest that we have comeÑi to being able to genetically modify a human embryo.was quite a successful experiment or series of experiments that the team did. that tells you that the ability successfully is probably not all that far off. >> charlie: inside white house conversations and a scientificñr breakthrough when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: we begin this week in washington. "the washington post" has obtained the full transcripts of two of president trump's calls with foreign leaders shortly after taking office. the calls with the leaders ofñr mexico and australiaçó portray a new president, seemingly more concerned about politics than policy. that all comes asçóçó general john kelly, president trump's chief of staff, tries to bring order from the westñr win. joiningñr us dan balz. >> this was the quiet leak.

it is a little bit like populations and the genetic makeup. if you think of human diseases you have common genetic traits and if you are that you are prone to an illness and an illness can become epidemic or playi playing. it is where you have a kinetic mix so that the infection can curtail to a group and don't spread across an entire community. that is what we are seeing with the digital landscape. there is too much skew of the similar type of technology used globally across enterprises. >> host: so to put this in technological terms, if a company has one computer system all connected with each other, that can be more dangerous than having difference systems? >> guest: let me repeat what i said. if an organization has the same type of computers or same type of operating systems on all their desk tops and all of them are not patched or a few of them are not patched these become an entry point. now what i did is they would find a beach head on one of these systems and try to spread through the internal network. once in the network they can move

couples who know they are at risk of passing on a genetic disorder is already at options.ave ivf embryo screening to pick the embryos which do not have the disorder but this technique will give them more options. the ethical debate is very important. it raises theissue, debate is very important. it raises the issue, how far should we go and tinker with nature to have a healthy child? the aims are laudable, trying to edit out diseases, but what if we could edit in traits? what about genes for intelligence or athletic ability? the genetics are much more complex than single genes but this isa complex than single genes but this is a debate we need to have but we are many years away from this technique being used to cure diseases let alone enhanced humans. butjean eddington —— gene editing isa butjean eddington —— gene editing is a technology to watch. four men from the west midlands have been convicted of plotting to attack police and the military. the terrorist cell was arrested last august after the security services found a pipe bomb, imitation gun and a meat cleaver in one

now genetic counselors are in demand >> as genetics permeates everything, there won't be enough geneticelors to see every patient who gets genetic information. >> the nsgc says the industry has grown 100% in the past decade to work as a counselor you don't need to be a doctor but you do need a masters degree, and programs are very competitive. >> they're in clinics seeing patients face-to-face. they're dealing with all different types of conditions from cancer to diabetes, a lot of diagnostic laboratories need jeanette ek counselors >> the roles are key in helping patients to understand test results, and developing a potential plan of action >> genetic concepts are complicated. and it's very important that patients understand them and understand not only what it means to them, but also to their family members >> so genetic counselors on average can make anywhere from 80,000 a year up to $250,000 annually depending on their location, their specialty, their years of expertise some laboratory testing is done on machines you can see behind me the genome sequencing process can take up to six

this is the closest we have come to being able to genetically modify a human embryo.t was quite a successful experiment or series of experiments that the team did. that tells you that the ability to do that safely and to do that successfully is probably not all that far off. a number of years, for sure, maybe a decade. dr. mitalipov so, people withtalipov diseases that can be inherited, that issue can be eliminated? be able to,is to for couples who have mutations that they would pass on to their children that would be a specific cause of a disease, this, the idea is that you would be able to correct this, to repair the rotation,-- the mutation, to i basically get rid of it. the genes were not only being not transferred to the child that would be a limited of from the family's line, for future generations. charlie: so, the question is, how did you do it? how long have you been working on it? give me a sense of your journey. dr. mitalipov: so, we've been actually monitoring how this new gene editing technology developed. as you know, there are several tools been develop

scientists alter human embryos to remove a genetic disease. the study's co-author will join us live. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and of course all around the world. i'm rosemary church, and that is "cnn newsroom." >>> u.s. president donald trump is lashing out at congress after reluctantly signing their bill laying new sanctions on russia. it had almost unanimous tomorrow on capitol hill, but mr. trump took issue with one thing above all, the bill prevents him from undoing sanctions against moscow without congressional approval. he says that's a mistake because it limits his ability to strike good deals for the american people. the sanctions target russian energy and defense sectors. there are also penalties for banks and foreign governments working with north korea. and iran gets punished as well for alleged human rights violations and its weapons programs. mr. trump elaborated on his objections, saying this. since this bill was first introduced, i have expressed my concerns to congress about the many

this is the closest that we have come to being able to genetically modify a human embryo.t was quite a successful experiment or series of experiments that the team did. and that tells you that the ability to do that safely and to do that successfully is probably not all that far off. >> rose: so people with diseases that could be inherited, that issue can be eliminated. >> right, for couples who have mutations that they would pass on to their children. the idea is that you would be able to correct this, to repair the mutation, to basically get rid of it. >> there are a series of ethical, societal issues that will need to be addressed once it becomes technically possible-- assuming it does. then we have to decide what should be allowed and what should not. there are many values to being able to correct genes like this, and there are also some-- some resks and some societal consequences having stood to-do with things like equity, who is going to have access to this. >> shoukhrat, what the toughest thing to overcome? and secondly, what is your next step? >> the first question

but in the future its expected that these cells will be used to treat a host of genetic disorders andmaged tissue. some companies are taking advantage of that, and are making good money by offering to bank stem cells. but is this money well spent when the benefits are still unclear? suranjana tewari went to find out. moments after entering the world, this baby girl may have already saved another life. her stem cells are being harvested from the blood in her umbilical cord. stem cells are already being used to treat some diseases and, with hundreds of trials under way globally, one day they could be used to cure a range of genetic disorders. this is the best time to harvest stem cells, rather than a painful procedure later in life. and because of the size of india's population, there is huge potential for stem cell banking. but more people need to do what is happening here. india accounts for 20% of the world's population but less than 1% of stem cell donors come from here. that means the chances of indians finding a suitable match are extremely low. awareness is growing though. india'

there are some nasty genetic diseases, such as huntington's or, as in this case, a disease that affectsrt function later in life, which can basically blight families for many generations. so a method of being able to avoid having having affected children passing on the defective gene could be really very important for those families. nicole mowbray has the same heart condition which was corrected in human embryos. she now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest in case her heart stops. she has a 50% risk of passing on the condition, but is unsure whether she would ever consider gene editing. i wouldn't want to pass on something that caused my child to have a limited life or a painful life or a life of risk. i mean, that does obviously come to the front of my mind when i think about having children. i wouldn't want to create the "perfect" — in inverted commas — child. i feel like my condition makes me me. and some are worried gene editing technology could lead to an era of designer babies. we will get into a society in which some people's children are genetically enhanced and given ad

rosemary: is it genetics? what is it? what causes somebody to be such a thrill-seeker and risk-taker? frank: well, the evidence tilts toward there being some what we call heritability for risk-taking. and, but that's not the whole story. for example, you might think that evel knievel and then his son robbie, robbie was another risk-taker, so that does seem to suggest genetics. but also he was raised to be that. rosemary: sure. frank: he told me of his father putting him on little sort of, as i remember, mini motorcycles at a very small age. and so, he was raised to be a risk-taker. and then he may have also had the genetic side of it as well. rosemary: your research also touches on the big picture as it relates to our society, that these are the kinds of people who may shape the world that we live in. frank: i agree, i happen to think that america, as a nation historically, tilts toward that big t end as opposed to the small t end. rosemary: seems almost like it falls in line with the american dream in some ways. frank: i

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there are some nasty genetic diseases like huntington, or a disease that affects heart function later, which can blight families for many generations. so a method of being able to avoid having affected children, passing on the defective gene, can be really very important for those families. nicole mowbray has the same heart condition that was corrected in human embryos. she 110w was corrected in human embryos. she now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest, in case her heart stops. she has a 50% risk of passing on the condition, but is unsure of whether she would consider gene editing. condition, but is unsure of whether she would consider gene editinglj wouldn't want to pass on something that caused my child to have a limited life or a painful life, or a life of risk. that does, obviously, come to the front of my mind when i think about having children. i wouldn't want to create the perfect child in inverted commas, i feel like my condition makes me me. previous attempts at editing human embryos in china led to serious errors in the dna. there is a lot of work needed before this

this about i/o genetics which is the shape of the future.he first big development which will begin to shape how the whole of the century maps out. this is a fantastic introduction of a way of avoiding inherited illnesses. i've known people who have not had that treatment and have had children disadvantaged and disabled unavoidably so and we can now avoid it. how boring is that but it opens the possibilities of genes dabbling. —— how brilliant is that. although people are mentioning design of babies saying it is beyond the pale. 0ne babies saying it is beyond the pale. one day soon somebody will say, perhaps we could just push it a little bit further, a little bit further so designer babies are somewhere down the line and this is one of the greatest scientific medical changes are century. the regulations, as you say, the stuff has gone through parliament and we are seen as more liberal than america for this kind of thing. but, how concerned to thing mps are about this? recently mitochondrial disease that has been in the news there was a chang

alright, now to that medical breakthrough, an international team of scientists has used genetic editingo remove a faulty gene from human embryos. this milestone in the fight against inherited diseases is controversial. any changes would be passed on to future generations without knowing about the side effects that may also be passed on. >> there is a genetic disease that would allow her heart to stop at any moment and there's a 50-50 chance her children could inherit it. >> i wouldldn't want t to pass anything onto my children t that comes with a life of risk. that comes to the front of f my mind when i think about having children. >> scicientists have reacheded a breakthroughgh in gene editing that could allow people like from passing it on to the nexext generation. ththis could stop thousands ofof hereditary d diseases. scientists cut the faulty gene and left the human embryo living for five days. >> these are molecular scissors that would allow you to direct the scissors into a very specific site and a very specific gene. >> researchers to go -- researchers duplicated the experience

the f-d-a has approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients' own blood *childh >>>n the healthwatch a breakthrough in the fight against leukemia. the fda has approved a first treatment that genetically engineers patients' own blood cells to destroy childhood leukemia. >> it's the first time of gene therapy to hit the u.s. market. a test found a one-time infusion put 80% of hard-to-treat patients into remission. we'll be right back. two big weather headlines: extreme heat coming to the bay area and tropical storm harvey. continuing coverage of those stories and more at five. >>> we're following two big weather headlines. extreme heat coming to the bay area and, of course, tropical storm harvey. we'll have continuing coverage of those stories and much more at 5:00. >>> that's it for kpix 5 news at noon. as we say good-bye, we are going to leave you with a shot of another in texas as the recovery continues. more than 32,000 people in shelters at this hour in texas. >> you can keep track of the very latest on cbssf.com. ♪ [ insects chirping ] >> ridge: hey, anthony. oh,

living psychologist doing a book on the origins of creativity, which is examined from a biological genetics plaintiff view. he examines how the humanities and sciences must come togethere together in the future. he discusses how humans are distinctly human through their language and creativity. people always say it was developed 10,000 years ago, he says not so, over 100,000 years ago and he traces the history in music and speech and art. the lost founding father. john quincy adams has finally come into his own. he was the most hyper intellectual president and was pummeled in the election of 1828 and andrew jackson slaughtered him, the mobs came to the white house and there was the man who the author william cooper said should be considered another founding father, the long-standing founding father. he came back to congress, led the fight into slavery and they passed the rule to try to muscle his voice. he died on the floor of congress against the mexican-american war in 1848 and it's the last time they got together. his funeral was the second-largest after lincoln. there will move people t

[applause] genetic manipulation the actual changing of genes is thing that has been possible to do only really relatively recently, and one of the main ways of doing it sob transplant a organism into another one and you've heard about -- cats that glow blue with jellyfish genes in them and stuff like that. crisper a wonderful book i do recommend it called crack many in creation and biographical about her career but it explains all about -- the technique of crisper and -- possible misuse and power that it might have. it is a very, very powerful fast technique for changing actually writing, actually programming genes in organism os any organism you like. it cools from -- that bacteria with their own immune system against viruses bacteria are very, very heavily afflicted by viruses called -- what are they called? >> thank you that's right. thank you. bacteria stages. and the technique that back tier ya use in order to recognize viruses in order to, you know, to kill them is a technique that humans can now exploit in order to edit genes of any organism you like. so immensely powerful new te

the parents of a boy with a rare genetic disorder have won the latest stage of their attempt to get thehs to pay for a "life—changing" drug. in the next hour we'll bring you the story of a woman who escaped serious injury after apparently being pushed by a jogger in front of a bus. cctv of the incident shows a man running along putney bridge in west london and appearing to shove the 33—year—old into the road. a man has died during an attempt to swim the english channel as part of a gruelling triathlon. good evening and welcome to bbc news. 0rganisers of the world athletics championships at the london stadium are trying to limit the spread of the norovirus which has already affected dozens of competitors and staff. one of the highest profile casualties is botswana's isaac makwala, a favourite in the 200 and 400 metre races. athletes from germany, canada and ireland who've been staying at the same hotel have also been affected but officials from public health england say it is not the source of the outbreak. here's our sports editor dan roan. actually, nick, it is me live at the london st

. >> the black people are genetically inferiol to white people. >> why is it -- >> what is that? >> i'm asking you, denounce that idea right now. say to everyone here that black people are not genetically inferior to white people. [ chanting ] >> and we saw a lot of shouting like that. we heard a lot of that. i can tell you that gentleman who husbawas jawing with the counterprotest, he told us he's not a white supremacist and does not support their views. we have to point that out although some counterprotesters questioned that bringing up image s of him on the internet. some wearing trump hats were drowned out by the masses and at one point chased out of the park. police have been responding to all of these altercations as they occur. it seemed like everything calmed down for the most part. just a short time ago, just over here, we heard what sounded like a stun gun being used. i looked over there, and there was a female protester taking a swing at one of those alt-right folks. police immediately came across the street from berkeley pd, broke it up, separated them. no arrests bu