Ep. 17b - COVID, CRISPR & Cancer ft. Owen Dunkley

<p>And we're back with Part 2 of 2 with Owen Dunkley. This time we've got an alliterative bonus episode covering COVID, CRISPR and COVID! Here are some of the subtopics we hit on within each:</p> <p><strong>CANCER</strong>: Mutations, somatic vs. germ-line cells, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, personalized medicine and the future of drug therapy.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>CRISPR</strong>: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, the CAS-9 complex, genomes, viruses and bacteria, plasmids, gene editing, NHEJ and HDR, prime editing.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>COVID</strong>: SARS-CoV-2 vs. SARS-CoV-1: the original SARS, positive single-stranded RNA viruses, infectious diseases, monitoring and the job of global health organizations</p> <p>We hope you enjoy Owen Dunkley in his appearance on this bonus episode, as he shares more of his invaluable knowledge on biological processes, diseases and viruses!</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/abstractcast/message