A bioengineer, a biopunk, and a biotech reporter talk about Genetic Engineering
/The Future of Genetic Engineering
A bioengineer, a biopunk, and a biotech reporter square off onstage about our neobiological future.
In a new documentary that is still in production, filmmaker Cory Sheehy follows renowned bioengineer George Church and biotech reporter Antonio Regalado to China for the 2nd International Summit on Human Genome Editing. That’s where biophysicist He Jiankui made the stunning announcement that he had edited the DNA of two twin girls who were born in November 2018. Back in California, the filmmaker catches up with biohacker Josiah Zayner, whose attention-grabbing exploits—part protest, part performance art—include injecting himself with a CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid.
