10 years of evolving biotech
Diana Enriquez
The race to code the entire human genome started in the 1990s. We will have a $1,000 genome within the next five to eight years. And that is what makes microRNAs such a promising biomarker for cancer, because as you know, cancer is a disease of altered gene expression. In 2015, Enriquez came back to TED with a bold talk on the ethical questions we’ll have when we start modifying the next human species. You can take an entire gene out, put one in, or even edit just a single letter within a gene.