Episode 5: VandyVox Episode 29-“Gene Drives” by Olivia Pembridge

Clones, mutations, genetic modifications, and diseases eliminations… while those may sound magically fantastical, the secrets of all those topics and more are revealed in Olivia Pembridge’s undergraduate runner-up audio “Gene Drives.”   Olivia will captivate you as she paints interconnected visuals that ease the listener into complex scientific topics and uses supplementary audio to drive home her main points. She debunks ethical concerns by interviewing experts in the field, namely Kathy Freedman, a Vanderbilt University geneticist, Thomas Clemens, a Vanderbilt University crisper researcher, and Leah Buckman, a Texas A&M entomology PhD Candidate who answers the question, “How bad is the bad?”