9 - Jeopardy, But For Science: July News Quiz (w/ Adam Silverman and Kirsten Jung)

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GUESS WHO'S BACK! After some long-neglected editing, we bring you some very belated news from July 2018. The news is old but hopefully still entertaining. Isaac was out this month, so we were instead joined by Kirsten Jung, a graduate student in the Lucks Lab at Northwestern. Here are some links to the papers and news we discuss in the episode: Gene-edited monkeys offer hope for heart disease patients: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/gene-edited-monkeys-offer-hope-heart-disease-patients CRISPR plants now subject to tough GM laws in European Union https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05814-6 CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing induces a p53-mediated DNA damage response https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0049-z Engineering circular RNA for potent and stable translation in eukaryotic cells https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05096-6 CRISPR gene editing produces unwanted DNA deletions https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05736-3 Last Week Tonight gene editing segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJm8PeWkiEU