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Ellen Jorgensen is at the leading edge of the do-it-yourself biotechnology movement, bringing scientific exploration and understanding to the public.

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In 2009, after many years of working as a molecular biologist in the biotech industry, together with TED Fellow Oliver Medvedik, Jorgensen founded Genspace, a nonprofit community laboratory dedicated to promoting citizen science and access to biotechnology. Despite criticism that bioresearch should be left to the experts, the Brooklyn-based lab continues to thrive, providing educational outreach, cultural events and a platform for science innovation at the grassroots level. At the lab, amateur and professional scientists conduct award-winning research on projects as diverse as identifying microbes that live in Earth's atmosphere and (Jorgensen's own pet project) DNA-barcoding plants, to distinguish between species that look alike but may not be closely related evolutionarily. Fast Company magazine named Genspace one of the world's "Top 10 innovative companies in education."

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Ellen Jorgensen: What you need to know about CRISPR

Ellen Jorgensen: Što trebate znati o CRISPR-u

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Trebamo li vratiti mamuta? Ili uređivati ljudski embrij? Ili izbrisati cijelu vrstu koju smatramo štetnom? Tehnologija za uređivanje genoma, CRISPR, postavlja ova nevjerojatna pitanja -- ali kako radi? Znanstvenica i zagovaratelj društvenih laboratorija, Ellen Jorgensen je na misiji objašnjavanja mitova i stvarnosti CRISPR-a, bez halabuke, onima koji nisu znanstvenici.
- Biologist, community science advocate
Ellen Jorgensen is at the leading edge of the do-it-yourself biotechnology movement, bringing scientific exploration and understanding to the public. Full bio

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00:12
So, has everybodysvi heardčuo of CRISPRCRISPR?
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Da li su svi ovdje čuli za CRISPR?
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I would be shockedšokiran if you hadn'tnije.
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Bila bih šokirana da niste.
00:18
This is a technologytehnologija --
it's for genomegenom editingmontaža --
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Ovo je tehnologija --
za uređivanje gena --
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and it's so versatilesvestran and so controversialkontroverzno
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i tako je prilagodljiva i kontroverzna
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that it's sparkingizbijanje varnice all sortsvrste
of really interestingzanimljiv conversationsrazgovori.
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da potiče svakakve
zaista zanimljive razgovore.
00:28
Should we bringdonijeti back the woollydlakav mammothmamut?
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Trebamo li vratiti mamuta?
00:31
Should we editUredi a humanljudski embryozametak?
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Trebamo li uređivati ljudski embrij?
00:34
And my personalosobni favoriteljubimac:
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I moj najdraži:
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How can we justifyopravdati
wipingBrisanje out an entirečitav speciesvrsta
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Kako možemo opravdati
brisanje čitave vrste,
00:40
that we considerrazmotriti harmfulštetan to humansljudi
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koju smatramo štetnima za ljude,
00:43
off the facelice of the EarthZemlja,
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sa lica zemlje,
00:44
usingkoristeći this technologytehnologija?
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koristeći ovu tehnologiju?
00:47
This typetip of scienceznanost
is movingkreće much fasterbrže
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Ova vrsta znanosti kreće se
puno brže
00:50
than the regulatoryregulatorni mechanismsmehanizmi
that governupravljati it.
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od regulatornih mehanizama
koji njome upravljaju.
00:53
And so, for the pastprošlost sixšest yearsgodina,
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I tako, posljednjih šest godina,
00:55
I've madenapravljen it my personalosobni missionmisija
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moja osobna misija je
00:57
to make sure that as manymnogi people
as possiblemoguće understandrazumjeti
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osigurati da što više ljudi
razumije
01:00
these typesvrste of technologiestehnologije
and theirnjihov implicationsimplikacije.
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ove tipove tehnologija
i njihove implikacije.
01:04
Now, CRISPRCRISPR has been the subjectpredmet
of a hugeogroman mediamedia hypehiper,
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Sada, CRISPR je bio predmet
velike pompe u medijima,
01:09
and the wordsriječi that are used mostnajviše oftenčesto
are "easylako" and "cheapjeftino."
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i riječi koje se najčešće koriste
su "jednostavno" i "povoljno."
01:14
So what I want to do is drillbušilica down
a little bitbit deeperdublje
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I ono što želim je otići malo dublje
01:17
and look into some of the mythsmitovi
and the realitiesstvarnosti around CRISPRCRISPR.
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i pogledati neke mitove i stvarnost
vezanu uz CRISPR.
01:22
If you're tryingtežak to CRISPRCRISPR a genomegenom,
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Ako pokušavate CRISPRirati genom,
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the first thing that you have to do
is damagešteta the DNADNK.
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prva stvar koju morate napraviti
je oštetiti DNK.
01:29
The damagešteta comesdolazi in the formoblik
of a double-strandDupli-strand breakpauza
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Šteta dolazi u obliku
pucanja dva vlakna
01:32
throughkroz the doubledvostruko helixspirala.
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kroz dvostruku uzvojnicu.
01:33
And then the cellularćelijski repairpopravak
processesprocesi kickudarac in,
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I onda se jave procesi
za popravljanje stanica,
01:37
and then we convinceuvjeriti
those repairpopravak processesprocesi
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i onda uvjerimo te procese za popravljanje
01:39
to make the editUredi that we want,
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da naprave uređivanje koje želimo,
01:42
and not a naturalprirodni editUredi.
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a ne prirodno uređivanje.
01:43
That's how it worksdjela.
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Tako to radi.
01:45
It's a two-partdva dijela systemsistem.
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To je sustav iz dva dijela.
01:47
You've got a CasCas9 proteinprotein
and something calledzvao a guidevodič RNARNA.
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Imate Cas9 protein
i nešto što se zove vodička RNK.
01:51
I like to think of it as a guidedvođena missileraketa.
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Volim zamišljati to kao navođenu raketu.
01:53
So the CasCas9 --
I love to anthropomorphizesmijemo humanizirati --
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Dakle Cas9 --
volim antropomorfozirati --
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so the CasCas9 is kindljubazan of this Pac-ManPac-Man thing
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tako da je Cas9 neka vrsta
stvari poput Pac-Mana
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that wants to chewžvakati DNADNK,
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koja želi žvakati DNK,
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and the guidevodič RNARNA is the leashremen
that's keepingčuvanje it out of the genomegenom
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i vodička RNK je uzica
koja ga drži izvan genoma
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untildo it findsnalazi the exacttočno spotmjesto
where it matchesodgovara.
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dok ne nađe točno mjestso
gdje se uklapa.
02:08
And the combinationkombinacija of those two
is calledzvao CRISPRCRISPR.
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I kombinacija te dvije stvari zove
se CRISPR.
02:11
It's a systemsistem that we stoleukrao
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To je sustav koji smo ukrali
02:13
from an ancientantički, ancientantički
bacterialbakterijski immuneimun systemsistem.
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od drevnih, drevnih bakterijskih
imunosnih sustava.
02:17
The partdio that's amazingnevjerojatan about it
is that the guidevodič RNARNA,
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Ono što je fascinanto je da
vodička RNK,
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only 20 lettersslova of it,
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samo 20 slova nje,
02:23
are what targetcilj the systemsistem.
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je ono što cilja sustav.
02:26
This is really easylako to designdizajn,
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To je jako jednostavno za dizajnirati,
02:28
and it's really cheapjeftino to buykupiti.
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i vrlo povoljno za kupiti.
02:30
So that's the partdio
that is modularmodularni in the systemsistem;
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To je dio koji je modularan u sustavu,
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everything elsedrugo staysostaje the sameisti.
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sve ostalo ostaje isto.
02:37
This makesmarke it a remarkablyizvanredno easylako
and powerfulsnažan systemsistem to use.
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Tako nastaje nevjerojatno jednostavan
i snažan sustav za korištenje.
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The guidevodič RNARNA and the CasCas9
proteinprotein complexkompleks togetherzajedno
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Vodička RNK i Cas9
kompleks bjelančevina skupa
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go bouncingodskakanje alonguz the genomegenom,
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skakuću po genomu,
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and when they find a spotmjesto
where the guidevodič RNARNA matchesodgovara,
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i kada nađu mjesto na koje pristaje
RNK,
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then it insertsUmeće betweenizmeđu the two strandstokova
of the doubledvostruko helixspirala,
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umeće se između dvije niti
dvostruke uzvojnice,
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it ripsKida them apartosim,
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kida ih,
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that triggersokidači the CasCas9 proteinprotein to cutrez,
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i to uzrokuje da Cas9 bjelančevina
reže,
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and all of a suddennaglo,
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i odjednom,
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you've got a cellćelija that's in totalukupno panicpanika
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imate stanicu koja je u panici
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because now it's got a piecekomad
of DNADNK that's brokenslomljen.
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jer sada ima komad pokidane DNK.
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What does it do?
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Što mora učiniti?
03:08
It callspozivi its first responderss odgovorom.
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Poziva prve intervente.
03:10
There are two majorglavni repairpopravak pathwaysputevi.
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Postoje dva puta za popravak.
03:13
The first just takes the DNADNK
and shovesgurne the two pieceskomada back togetherzajedno.
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PRvi samo uzima DNK i spoji ta dva komada.
03:18
This isn't a very efficientučinkovit systemsistem,
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Ovo nije učinkovit sistem
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because what happensdogađa se is
sometimesponekad a basebaza dropsKapi out
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jer ponekad baza ispadne
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or a basebaza is addeddodano.
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ili je dodana.
03:25
It's an OK way to maybe, like,
knockkucati out a genegen,
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To je OK način za izbacivanje gena,
03:28
but it's not the way that we really want
to do genomegenom editingmontaža.
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ali to nije način na koji želite
uređivati genom.
03:32
The seconddrugi repairpopravak pathwaystaza
is a lot more interestingzanimljiv.
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Drugi put popravka je
puno zanimljiviji.
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In this repairpopravak pathwaystaza,
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Ovim putem,
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it takes a homologousodgovarajući piecekomad of DNADNK.
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trebate homologni komad DNK.
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And now mindum you, in a diploidtipa
organismorganizam like people,
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I sad, u diploidnih organizama
kao što su ljudi,
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we'veimamo got one copykopirati of our genomegenom
from our mommama and one from our dadtata,
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imamo jednu kopiju našeg genoma
od mame i jednu od tate,
03:46
so if one getsdobiva damagedoštećen,
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tako da ako se jedna ošteti,
03:47
it can use the other
chromosomekromosom to repairpopravak it.
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može koristiti drugi kromosom
za popravak.
03:50
So that's where this comesdolazi from.
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Dakle odavde to dolazi.
03:52
The repairpopravak is madenapravljen,
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Popravak je napravljen,
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and now the genomegenom is safesef again.
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i sada je genom ponovno siguran.
03:56
The way that we can hijackoteti this
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Način na koji ovo želimo oteti
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is we can feedstočna hrana it a falselažan piecekomad of DNADNK,
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je da ga hranimo lažnim komadom DNK,
04:02
a piecekomad that has homologyhomologija on bothoba endskrajevi
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komadom koji ima homologiju
na oba kraja
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but is differentdrugačiji in the middlesrednji.
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ali je drugačiji u sredini.
04:06
So now, you can put
whateveršto god you want in the centercentar
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Sada, možete u sredinu
staviti što god želite
04:08
and the cellćelija getsdobiva fooledprevaren.
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i stanica će biti zavarana.
04:10
So you can changepromijeniti a letterpismo,
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Tako da možete mijenjati slovo,
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you can take lettersslova out,
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možete izvaditi slovo,
04:13
but mostnajviše importantlyvažnije,
you can stuffstvari newnovi DNADNK in,
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ali najvažnije, možete
nagurati novu DNK unutra,
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kindljubazan of like a TrojanIzdržljiv čovjek horsekonj.
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nešto kao Trojanski konj.
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CRISPRCRISPR is going to be amazingnevjerojatan,
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CRISPR će biti nevjerojatan
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in termsUvjeti of the numberbroj of differentdrugačiji
scientificznanstvena advancesnapredak
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u pogledu broja različitih
znanstvenih napredaka
04:24
that it's going to catalyzekataliziraju.
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koje će katalizirati.
04:26
The thing that's specialposeban about it
is this modularmodularni targetingciljanje systemsistem.
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Stvar koja je posebna u tome
je ovaj modularni sustav za ciljanje.
04:29
I mean, we'veimamo been shovingguranje DNADNK
into organismsorganizmi for yearsgodina, right?
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Mislim, guramo DNK
u organizme godinama, zar ne?
04:33
But because of the modularmodularni
targetingciljanje systemsistem,
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Ali zbog modularnog sustava za ciljanje,
04:35
we can actuallyzapravo put it
exactlytočno where we want it.
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možemo ju zapravo staviti gdje god želimo.
04:39
The thing is that there's
a lot of talk about it beingbiće cheapjeftino
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Stvar je u tome da se puno priča
o tome da je povoljan
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and it beingbiće easylako.
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i lak za shvatiti.
04:46
And I runtrčanje a communityzajednica lablaboratorija.
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I ja vodim društveni laboratorij.
04:50
I'm startingpolazeći to get emailse-mail from people
that say stuffstvari like,
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Počinjem dobivati mailove ljudi
koji kažu sljedeće,
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"Hey, can I come to your openotvoren night
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"Mogu li doći na vašu otvorenu večer
04:56
and, like, maybe use CRISPRCRISPR
and engineerinženjer my genomegenom?"
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i možda koristiti CRISPR
i urediti moj genom?"
04:59
(LaugherLaugher)
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(Smijeh)
05:01
Like, seriouslyozbiljno.
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Kao, ozbiljno.
05:03
I'm, "No, you can't."
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Ja kažem, "Ne, ne možete."
05:05
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
05:06
"But I've heardčuo it's cheapjeftino.
I've heardčuo it's easylako."
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"Ali čuo sam da je povoljno
i lako."
05:08
We're going to exploreistražiti that a little bitbit.
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To ćemo malo istraživati.
05:10
So, how cheapjeftino is it?
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Pa, koliko je to povoljno?
05:12
Yeah, it is cheapjeftino in comparisonusporedba.
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Da, povoljan je u usporedbi s drugima.
05:15
It's going to take the costcijena of the averageprosječan
materialsmaterijali for an experimenteksperiment
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Smanjit će troškove prosječnih materijala
za eksperimente
05:19
from thousandstisuća of dollarsdolara
to hundredsstotine of dollarsdolara,
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sa tisuća i tisuća dolara na stotine dolara,
05:21
and it cutsrezovi the time a lot, too.
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i skraćuje potrebno vrijeme također.
05:23
It can cutrez it from weeksTjedni to daysdana.
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Može skratiti vrijeme od tjedana do dana.
05:26
That's great.
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To je fantastično.
05:27
You still need a professionalprofesionalac lablaboratorija
to do the work in;
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Još uvijek trebate profesionalni
laboratorij u kojem ćete raditi;
05:30
you're not going to do anything meaningfulznačajan
outsideizvan of a professionalprofesionalac lablaboratorija.
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nećete ništa značajno napraviti
izvan profesionalnog laboratorija.
05:34
I mean, don't listen to anyonebilo tko who sayskaže
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Mislim, nemojte slušati nikoga tko kaže
05:36
you can do this sortvrsta of stuffstvari
on your kitchenkuhinja tablestol.
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da možete ove stvari raditi na vašem
kuhinjskom stolu.
05:39
It's really not easylako
to do this kindljubazan of work.
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Nije lako raditi ovakve stvari.
05:43
Not to mentionspomenuti,
there's a patentpatent battlebitka going on,
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Da ne spominjem da postoji
bitka za patente trenutno,
05:46
so even if you do inventizumiti something,
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tako da i ako nešto izumimo,
05:48
the BroadŠiroki InstituteInstitut and UCUC BerkeleyBerkeley
are in this incrediblenevjerojatan patentpatent battlebitka.
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Broad Institut, ili Berkeley
se bore u ovoj bitci za patent.
05:54
It's really fascinatingfascinantan
to watch it happendogoditi se,
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Zaista je fascinantno gledati je
kako se razvija
05:57
because they're accusingoptužujući eachsvaki other
of fraudulentlažne claimszahtjevi
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jer se optužuju međusobno
za lažne tvrdnje
06:00
and then they'vešto ga do got people sayingizreka,
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i onda ljudi dolaze i govore,
06:02
"Oh, well, I signedpotpisan
my notebookBilježnica here or there."
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"Pa potpisao sam bilježnicu
tu ili tu."
06:05
This isn't going to be settledriješiti for yearsgodina.
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To se neće riješiti godinama.
06:07
And when it is,
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A i kada se riješi,
06:08
you can betkladiti se you're going to payplatiti someonenetko
a really heftytežak licensinglicenciranje feepristojba
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možete se gladiti da ćete nekome
plaćati pozamašnu svotu za licencu
06:11
in ordernarudžba to use this stuffstvari.
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kako biste koristili ove stvari.
06:13
So, is it really cheapjeftino?
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Pa, je li zaista povoljno?
06:15
Well, it's cheapjeftino if you're doing
basicosnovni researchistraživanje and you've got a lablaboratorija.
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Pa, povoljno je ako radite
osnovno istraživanje i imate laboratorij.
06:21
How about easylako?
Let's look at that claimzahtjev.
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A što s time da je jednostavno?
Pogledajmo tu tvrdnju.
06:24
The devilvrag is always in the detailsdetalji.
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Vrag je uvijek u detaljima.
06:27
We don't really know
that much about cellsStanice.
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Zaista ne znamo tako
puno o stanicama.
06:31
They're still kindljubazan of blackcrno boxeskutije.
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One su još uvijek crne kutije.
06:32
For exampleprimjer, we don't know
why some guidevodič RNAsRNAs work really well
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Na primjer, ne znamo zašto
neka vodička RNK radi dobro,
06:37
and some guidevodič RNAsRNAs don't.
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a druge ne.
06:39
We don't know why some cellsStanice
want to do one repairpopravak pathwaystaza
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Ne znam zašto neke stanice
rade popravke jednim putem
06:43
and some cellsStanice would ratherradije do the other.
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a neke druge drugim putem.
06:46
And besidesosim toga that,
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I osim toga,
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there's the wholečitav problemproblem
of gettinguzimajući the systemsistem into the cellćelija
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postoji čitav problem
stavljanja sustava u stanicu
06:50
in the first placemjesto.
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na prvom mjestu.
06:51
In a petriPetri dishjelo, that's not that hardteško,
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U petrijevoj zdjelici, to nije teško,
06:53
but if you're tryingtežak to do it
on a wholečitav organismorganizam,
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ali ako pokušavate to napraviti
čitavom organizmu,
06:56
it getsdobiva really trickylukav.
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postaje dosta nezgodno.
06:58
It's OK if you use something
like bloodkrv or bonekost marrowsrži --
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U redu je ako koristite
nešto kao koštanu srž --
07:01
those are the targetsciljevi
of a lot of researchistraživanje now.
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to je predmet dosta istraživanja.
07:03
There was a great storypriča
of some little girldjevojka
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Postojala je odlična priča
o djevojčici
07:05
who they savedspremaju from leukemialeukemije
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koju su spasili od leukemije
07:07
by takinguzimanje the bloodkrv out, editingmontaža it,
and puttingstavljanje it back
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uzimajući krv, uređujući je i vrativši je
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with a precursorprethodnik of CRISPRCRISPR.
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sa pretečom CRISPR-a.
07:12
And this is a linecrta of researchistraživanje
that people are going to do.
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I ovo je istraživanje koje će ljudi raditi.
07:15
But right now, if you want to get
into the wholečitav bodytijelo,
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Ali sada, ako želite doći
u cijelo tijelo,
07:18
you're probablyvjerojatno going
to have to use a virusvirus.
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morat ćete koristiti virus.
07:20
So you take the virusvirus,
you put the CRISPRCRISPR into it,
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Uzmete virus, stavite CRISPR
u njega,
07:22
you let the virusvirus infectzaraziti the cellćelija.
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dozvolite virusu da zarazi stanicu.
07:24
But now you've got this virusvirus in there,
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Ali sada tu imate taj virus,
07:26
and we don't know what the long-termdugoročno
effectsefekti of that are.
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i ne znamo kako će dugoročno
utjecati na okruženje.
07:29
PlusPlus, CRISPRCRISPR has some off-targetslijetanje effectsefekti,
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A i CRISPR ima neke neželjene
učinke,
07:31
a very smallmali percentagepostotak,
but they're still there.
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vrlo malen postotak,
ali oni su još uvijek tamo.
07:34
What's going to happendogoditi se
over time with that?
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Što će se s njima dogoditi
kroz vrijeme?
07:38
These are not trivialtrivijalno questionspitanja,
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OVo nisu trivijalna pitanja,
07:40
and there are scientistsznanstvenici
that are tryingtežak to solveriješiti them,
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i postoje znanstvenici
koji na njih pokušavaju odgovoriti,
07:42
and they will eventuallyeventualno,
hopefullynadajmo se, be solvedriješen.
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i s vremenom će, nadamo se,
biti riješeni.
07:45
But it ain'tnije plug-and-playUključi i radi,
not by a long shotšut.
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Ali to nije uključi i igraj,
ni u kom slučaju.
07:48
So: Is it really easylako?
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Dakle, je li zaista lako?
07:51
Well, if you spendprovesti a fewnekoliko yearsgodina
workingrad it out in your particularposebno systemsistem,
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Pa, ako potrošite nekoliko godina
radeći s tim u određenom sustavu,
07:55
yes, it is.
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da, jest.
07:57
Now the other thing is,
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Druga stvar je,
07:59
we don't really know that much about how
to make a particularposebno thing happendogoditi se
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mi ne znamo puno o tome
kako učiniti da se određena stvar dogodi
08:05
by changingmijenjanje particularposebno spotsmjesta
in the genomegenom.
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mjenjajući određena mjesta u genomu.
08:09
We're a long way away from figuringfiguring out
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Daleko smo od shvaćanja kako
08:11
how to give a pigsvinja wingskrila, for exampleprimjer.
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svinjama dati krila, na primjer.
08:14
Or even an extraekstra legnoga -- I'd settlepodmiriti
for an extraekstra legnoga.
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Ili samo dodatnu nogu -- zadovoljila
bih se dodatnom nogom.
08:17
That would be kindljubazan of coolsvjež, right?
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To bi bilo pomalo kul, zar ne?
08:18
But what is happeningdogađa
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Ali ono što se događa
08:20
is that CRISPRCRISPR is beingbiće used
by thousandstisuća and thousandstisuća of scientistsznanstvenici
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je da CRISPR koriste
tisuće i tisuće znanstvenika
08:24
to do really, really importantvažno work,
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kako bi radili vrlo, vrlo važan posao,
08:27
like makingizrađivanje better modelsmodeli
of diseasesoboljenja in animalsživotinje, for exampleprimjer,
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radeći bolje modele bolesti
kod životinja na primjer,
08:32
or for takinguzimanje pathwaysputevi
that produceproizvoditi valuablevrijedan chemicalskemikalije
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ili koristeći putanje koje
proizvode vrijedne kemikalije
08:37
and gettinguzimajući them into industrialindustrijski
productionproizvodnja and fermentationvrenje vatsbačve,
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i uvode ih u industrijsku
proizvodnju i fermentaciju,
08:42
or even doing really basicosnovni researchistraživanje
on what genesgeni do.
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ili rade osnovna istraživanja
o tome što čine geni.
08:46
This is the storypriča of CRISPRCRISPR
we should be tellingreći,
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To je priča CRISPR-a
koju bismo trebali pričati
08:48
and I don't like it
that the flashierupadljivije aspectsaspekti of it
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i ne volim što ovi blještavi dijelovi
08:52
are drowningutapanje all of this out.
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zasjenjuju sve ovo.
08:54
Lots of scientistsznanstvenici did a lot of work
to make CRISPRCRISPR happendogoditi se,
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Puno znanstvenika radilo je na tome
da se CRISPR dogodi,
08:58
and what's interestingzanimljiv to me
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i ono što mi je zanimljivo mi je
09:00
is that these scientistsznanstvenici
are beingbiće supportedpodržan by our societydruštvo.
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da su ovi znanstvenici
poduprti od strane društva.
09:05
Think about it.
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Razmislite o tome.
09:06
We'veMoramo got an infrastructureinfrastruktura that allowsomogućuje
a certainsiguran percentagepostotak of people
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Imamo infrastrukturu koja dozvoljava
određenom postotku ljudi
09:10
to spendprovesti all theirnjihov time doing researchistraživanje.
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da troši svo svoje vrijeme istraživajući.
09:14
That makesmarke us all the inventorsizumitelji of CRISPRCRISPR,
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To nas sve čini izumiteljima CRISPR-a,
09:18
and I would say that makesmarke us all
the shepherdspastiri of CRISPRCRISPR.
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i čini nas pastirima CRISPR-a.
09:23
We all have a responsibilityodgovornost.
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Svi imamo odgovornost.
09:25
So I would urgetjerati you to really learnnaučiti
about these typesvrste of technologiestehnologije,
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Tako da bih urgirala da zaista naučite
nešto o ovim tehnologijama,
09:30
because, really, only in that way
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jer, zapravo, samo na taj način
09:32
are we going to be ableu stanju to guidevodič
the developmentrazvoj of these technologiestehnologije,
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ćemo moći voditi razvoj
ovih tehnologija,
09:36
the use of these technologiestehnologije
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uporabu ovih tehnologija
09:38
and make sure that, in the endkraj,
it's a positivepozitivan outcomeishod --
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i biti sigurni da je na kraju
rezultat pozitivan --
09:43
for bothoba the planetplaneta and for us.
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i za planet i za nas.
09:46
ThanksHvala.
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Hvala.
09:47
(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Ivan Stamenkovic
Reviewed by Senzos Osijek

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ellen Jorgensen - Biologist, community science advocate
Ellen Jorgensen is at the leading edge of the do-it-yourself biotechnology movement, bringing scientific exploration and understanding to the public.

Why you should listen

In 2009, after many years of working as a molecular biologist in the biotech industry, together with TED Fellow Oliver Medvedik, Jorgensen founded Genspace, a nonprofit community laboratory dedicated to promoting citizen science and access to biotechnology. Despite criticism that bioresearch should be left to the experts, the Brooklyn-based lab continues to thrive, providing educational outreach, cultural events and a platform for science innovation at the grassroots level. At the lab, amateur and professional scientists conduct award-winning research on projects as diverse as identifying microbes that live in Earth's atmosphere and (Jorgensen's own pet project) DNA-barcoding plants, to distinguish between species that look alike but may not be closely related evolutionarily. Fast Company magazine named Genspace one of the world's "Top 10 innovative companies in education."

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