jennifer doudna. a good one. that does it for this addition of bloomberg technology. it is earth day. we have a slew of amazing guests including a guest from tesla and i will be speaking with the ceo of warner media. you don't want to miss it. that is all for today. i'm emily chang. this is bloomberg. ♪ want to save hundreds on your wireless bill? with xfinity mobile, you can. how about saving hundreds on the new samsung galaxy s21 ultra 5g? you can do that too. all on the most reliable network? sure thing! and with fast, nationwide 5g included - at no extra cost? we've got you covered. so join the carrier rated #1 in customer satisfaction... ...and learn how much you can save at xfinitymobile.com/mysavings. haidi: a very good morning and welcome to daybreak australia. shery: good evening from bloomberg's world headquarters in new york. haidi: australia cancels belt and road deals with china saying they're inconsistent with the country's foreign policy. beijing calls the move unreasonable and provocative.

jennifer doudna helped pioneer one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of our generation.led crisper, -- crispr, a technology that can engineer rna in a single cell. i sat down with her, where she talked about the technology and its potential. >> crispr is a system and -- in bacteria that detects and cuts virus genetic material. it was by studying how that actually worked, and we did this in collaboration with emmanuelle's lab to study the function of a protein. that line of research led to an understanding of the function of this molecule that allowed us to harness it as a tool for genetic manipulation, namely for altering dna sequences in a precise fashion, in a programmable fashion that gives scientists a powerful way to understand the function of genes, but importantly to change the function of genes in a targeted way. emily: the pace of crispr research, the application has been startling. it has been incredible to watch. what are the current cases that inspire you the most? >> i always think about victoria gray, who was the first patient with sickle cell disease to be

jennifer doudna pioneered a technology that may one day be able to do just that, one of the biggest scientificthroughs of our lifetimes. it is called crispr, a bacterial defense system that can edit genetic material. it already shows pro

in october, emmanuelle charpentier and jennifer doudna received the first science based nobel prize ever by two women. their invention allows you to cut dna wherever you want, critical to genome editing and then in november, of course, kamala harris was elected vice president, becoming the first woman, the first black person, and the first asian person to hold that position >> every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. >> well, she was inaugurated in january when amanda gorman shocked the world with her poem "the hill we climb." incredible gorman is the first national youth poet laureate and the youngest inaugural poet in history. >> a country and a time where a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president. >> in february, chloe zhao became the first woman of color to win best director at the golden globes, and just this month, beyonce won the most grammys of any woman and any singer ever, 28 if we're counting and then just last week, kim janey was sworn in as boston's first black and first fem