The Future of Genetic Engineering with Mark Ryall

Ramble by the River

Mark Ryall, author of Age Decoded, joins me to discuss his new book, his career in education, and we really get into the topic of genetic engineering. Mark talks about his love of teaching and how an unexpected foray into running with his young daughter bloomed into an intensely-competitive triathlon hobby, and how he never quite felt like he fit in at engineering school.

Genetic engineering is a topic that is easy to get lost in. There are so many moral and ethical concerns, and it can be quite difficult to understand in the first place. Mark and I cover many of the ethical issues and offer some attempt to make sense of CRISPR and related technologies.

Mark describes many of the aspects of his book, Age Decoded, and we even get to hear him read a couple lines from the text. Age Decoded is the story of what happens to humanity after we solve the problem of aging and eventually learn how to reverse it. The book is full of excitement, curiosity, and even some romance. It's a fun read and you really learn a lot about the possibilities of the future.

Thanks for tuning in, I hope you enjoy it!

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Education; coaching; parenting; running; long-distance running; University of Waterloo; engineering; mathematics; triathlon; physiology; aerobic capacity; David Sinclair; Harvard University; Steven Horvath; UCLA; George Church; diseases of aging; reverse aging; speculative fiction; CRISPR; gene editing; Huntington’s Disease; Imperial College London; nano-robotics; Nobel Prize; Intellia Therapeutics; Schizophrenia; Bi-polar disorder; Icahn Institute Genomics Institute; genetic depression; liver disease; Emmanuelle Charpentier; Jennifer Doudna; chronic pain; clinical depression; Elon Musk; Neural-ink; Brave New World; Aldous Huxley; Françoise Baylis; Altered Inheritance; Dalhousie university; Halifax Nova Scotia; Harvard University Press; telomeres; C.S. Lewis; The Abolition of Man; eugenics; Adolf Hitler; obesity; Eddie Murphy; blindness; robotics; Ray Curtswhile; The Singularity; quantum computing; World Antidoping Agency; DNA; Eugenics; scientific education; WWII; Nazi scientists; blindness; Down’s syndrome; Turing test;

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