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TED Talks: Season 2019

2019x143 Rob Reid: How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it
TV-PG

  • 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
The world-changing promise of synthetic biology and gene editing has a dark side. In this far-seeing talk, author and entrepreneur Rob Reid reviews the risks of a world where more and more people have access to the tools and tech needed to create a doomsday bug that could wipe out humanity — and suggests that it's time to take this danger seriously.
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