12min @thecreashcourse clip - Changing the Blueprints of Life - #Genetic Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #38

text from youtube "Can we change the blueprints of life? This week we are exploring that question with genetic engineering. We’ll discuss how selective breeding can improve agricultural practices, and the potential DNA-level engineering could have on other fields of engineering. We’ll also look at how optogenetics and CRISPR have opened up new ways for genetic engineers to change the DNA inside living cells.

7 wonders of the microbe world - #geneticengineering (6/7)

in summary

- genetically modifying microbes can produce, medicines, food and maybe even fuel

- 1st done in 1973

- genetic engineering is about adding things to microbes

- e.g. insulin used to be taken from slaughtered pigs but in the 1980's scientists discovered how to produce it for humans using modifications to e-coli