I mean we've done it with a ton of things. Look at the guy who was sick of Brussel Sprouts, and went to work for years to make them sweeter! Fact is humans have been screwing with plant genetics creating different cultivars for a long time. CRISPR is just a scalpel opposed to uhhh... A chisel. Ever see or taste many plants and what they use to be just even a few centuries ago?! Like holy hell you can hardly recognize some. Corn, apples, and bananas come to mind. Hell good luck getting edible apples from a true seed! We just need to crack all flavors. I don't buy that we only taste 4 things at all. There is more than sweet, sour, bitter, and umami.
Crispr has been a revolutionary new discovery for a while. I made a presentation on it at school in 7th grade! There are so many things that we can do with crispr and this is just scratching the surface!
no. that is not how it works. short term you are editing plants DNA to make it taste better but there is no saying what domino effect it will create once the seeds are grown in field and the pollen from these crispr plants mix with native non edited DNA species. crispr is very different from hydridization or selective trait breeding. editing DNA is pandora box. you never know what it will unleash.
@@lordjaashin You know that nature edits DNA all the time? It's called "mutations". And unlike CRISPR, nature doesn't care at all whether the results are safe for human consumption.
it will be more than that. much worse. not just about salad. It will be used to edit human longevity. And that means it will become a commodity of the ultra rich. Also, that means the ultra rich will no longer strategize towards leaving a legacy upon their deaths, but to be immortal, and therefore hoarding all the riches in the world, destroying a lot of lives and livelihood in the process.
I was just talking with a friend who is involved in that research! He explained all about why crispr editing is more powerful than older gene therapy, and it was dystrophy research funding that made all that progress possible
it will be more than that. much worse. It will be used to edit human longevity. And that means it will become a commodity of the ultra rich. Also, that means the ultra rich will no longer strategize towards leaving a legacy upon their deaths, but to be immortal, and therefore hoarding all the riches in the world, destroying a lot of lives and livelihood in the process.
The most exciting potential of CRISPR to me is the potential to make cold hardy variants of tropical plants. I'm trying to do that at the moment through selective breeding, but there's no guarantee that it'll ever work.
shout out to you for that actually selective breeding is so annoying cause you get one trait but then the entire taste changes or it only keeps ripe for like a day
@@macandfries6765 Yeah. It's why I'm hoping to focus on one goal at a time, then reintroduce traits later on. I'm working on cold hardy rootstocks of topicals in a greenhouse rather than flavor, because a rootstock that's cold hardy of plants such as tamarind (the seeds are easy to get) is what's most important to me. I could potentially graft better tasting cultivars onto it (they might not stay grafted over a freeze. This is all an experiment). Again, I'm very new to this, and with selective breeding, but if I manage to succeed, I can really do something big when it comes to farming and selling uncommon fruits in my region.
Also the opposite, heat and especially drought resistant varieties of edible plants will be extremely important to life as the climate catastrophe worsens
I took an environmental sustainability class in high school and CRISPR was such an interesting concept! If I remember correctly our lab project on it was to make E. Coli bioluminescent, it was so fun! I could only imagine the type of research you conduct being in biotech
Hi, can you explain why modifying dna with genes from he same species is different from the "Modified" in "Genetically Modified Organism"? I dont see it, you are still toying with dna
@@thebigbo hey, so to put in very simple terms it is like taking genetic material from the same organism/ species and altering it to make desire changes but with Recombination , one can combine genetic material of at least two organisms irrespective of their species to get desired traits or properties
@@ethanthao3704omg that’s sounds so fun! I am so glad you enjoyed it. Well I have only recently done my bachelors so I haven’t had much chance to play around CRISPR yet but I am hoping I can involve it more in my masters studies :)
@@dikshakankaran212 I mean, if we would do this to humans wouldn't it be potentially eugenetics, or controlling the genes of a possible future child, like the colour of the eyes or height?
Taste also has a lot to do with how our brains function and evolve. Acquired tastes are an amazing adapted response to changes in available food sources.
Lol sweet does not equal better. There's a reason so many people prefer their coffee and tea without sugar, and it's not always a healthy thing. Fun fact, when made correctly, coffee doesn't taste bad when drunk at room temperature. That heat, cold, sugar or cream is just to cover up some of the bitter bits that may seep out of the bean.
I don't think she would be doing what she is doing without Hank Green having done it first, propping her channel up. Another of my biases would be that she is attempting to add a "rainbows and unicorns" vibe to areas of science that would love to dissect that unicorn and it's vibe. In only one of her videos was I accepting of the lightheartedness. The rest have been the saltiest stuff I have ever drank. Like the James Webb telescope is not looking for an answer to prayers but an ending to them. (i.e. it's looking for dark matter or ether, all of it's funding is for it to find an invisible substance 😂)
Yeah, it’s called acting. She’s Pepe happy and giving bite-size pieces of information that has some truth in it to make us feel really good about the whole situation. When in reality. This is old technology that’s been being used for like 50 years. They have use the technology on many fruits and vegetables and that’s why it’s actually called genetic modification because they’re modifying the current genetics. Not adding new. She is an actress who is selling you something. Wholesome? it’s just an act.
@@salemrosales4259 not really. traditional GMO techniques that have been used for the past 50 years involve using DNA from different species. afaik, i don't think there was any way to just reliably tweak DNA however we want without using e
@@fruitygranulizer540im sorry, but does not GMO stand for Genetically Modified Organism? Isnt "editing" a way to "modify"? I dont see why this isnt gmo.
The problem is that the bitter taste is a lot of its nutritional value. The antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds are often bitter. If we spend time eating these, we get used to the taste. If we eat processed foods all the time, with mild flavours, we lose our taste for these bitter compounds
Using your critical thinking skills if you have any you could realize she didn't need to say that they are editing the DNA of these things to alter the flavor not the nutrients. Even a simple google search will show you that it does not change the nutritional value so your argument really only comes down to "people should just suck it up and eat things they don't like to get used to it"
@LaucenChevaleir Google is just a search engine, not an encyclopaedia. Whenever we use it we also need the discernment to distinguish reliable information from unreliable, evidence-based facts from opinions. A particular danger with Google is that it tends to feed our beliefs back to us, in an information bubble.
They don't need to be cooked, but blanching can help. The bitter complements an acidic vinaigrette! Mustard greens, with olive oil, lemon juice, and honey is sooooo delicious! Brassica is an amazing plant family!
Most bitter tastes are from poisons (yes, I know there are edible bitter things, but bitter is a warning from the plant that says to "spit it out or else") so I have to wonder if this will make them *less* pest resistant.
@@orbismworldbuilding8428Not always. And is not often the case. There are different ways of defending from pests. Bitter and astringent tastes are more commonly used to repel larger herbivores rather than smaller invertebrate pests.
Most plants have multiple ways in which to ward off different types of predators. I doubt that the substance that tastes bitter to humans is the only thing it has for warding off pests.
Sometimes, but a lot of chemicals that repel bugs don’t affect humans the same way. Like, plants that use caffeine didn’t count on humans enjoying it more lol
I especially enjoy optimistic science stories pertaining to agriculture! I'm an itty bitty beginner homestead hobbyist, and nothing gets my gears going quite like things that you can grow and then eat.
@@feuerling Precision aside, I meant 'is it possible to make something that tastes sweet but doesn't actually have any sugars.' I just realized something though. Its the same as normal sugar, just flipped. SO a VEERY short summary is that life evolved, theres was naturally 2 types of things (left handed and right handed molecules) and life evolved to right handed molecules. So now life is just incompatible with left handed sugar, yet for humans we can still taste it, just that our body isn't affected. IF we could genetically engineer a 'mirror' plant (which is technically possible but I'm pretty sure would be a hell of a lot of work) then sure we could get food that tastes sweet and yet has none that matters. However if we ignore mirrored sugar is it possible to make a plant which tastes sweet but is healthy/not unhealthy?
I like bitterness too but not in salad and in realty bitterness = toxic. The bitterness not only deters animals from eating it but also insects, because they are poisoned by it. This means it may not grow very well in the large scale organically with this modification.
@@skyworm8006The bitterness deters large animals. Insects require stronger chemicals which don’t affect herbivores more robust digestive systems. Case in point, poison ivy has toxins to deter insects, but most mammals except humans can easily eat it.
heeeey, I remember learning about CRISPR in my ethics class. There were discussions about possibly using this with humans and somewhere in Asia a scientist actually did so to a set of twins and they were born with the genetics to be immune to HIV or something and it was a big ethical delemma
@@gasun1274 I mean you could if you have the technology to do it but that's pretty expensive so luckily there are dozens of peer reviewed articles that tell you exactly what they did and how it works.
The way Monsanto edits plants’ genomes so the seeds they produce are infertile is straight up evil. I’m all for GMOs, but practices like this have to be stopped.
@@group555_ that is not correct. The bitter flavour is still there and it’s an acquired taste to be honest. It’s the same as bitter melon which we also love. Unrelated but a recent Netflix doc about longest living cities has people in Okinawa eating a lot of bitter melon. I wonder if the bitter taste has some correlation to the high levels of beneficial nutrients.
I still remember talking about crispr in school ages ago. At that time it was barely starting to be used and we even discussed the potential future risks and benefits of it. It's crazy to see how far its come now
They have also used crispr to treat cancer through editing t cells and to treat sickle cell anemia through changing the blood back to teenage settings... If there is an epigenetic cure for aging it's right there.
@@clown.mp4413 The whole concept of eugenics is ridiculous when you can just fix debilitating genetic defects like sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, or scid.
Nooo, but I genuinely love the taste of bitter greens!! I'm all for genetically engineering crops, but I hope it doesn't lead to a future where bitter, sour, and anything but sweet & savory is erased from food to suit the tastes of the majority. We already see that a bit in how much added sugar is in everything, and it just kills the complexity of so many flavors. :(
it will be more than that. much worse. It will be used to edit human longevity. And that means it will become a commodity of the ultra rich. Also, that means the ultra rich will no longer strategize towards leaving a legacy upon their deaths, but to be immortal, and therefore hoarding all the riches in the world, destroying a lot of lives and livelihood in the process.
@@KCUFyoufordoxingme I don't believe that to be true. So many different animals to eat that you don't find in supermarkets. Also insects exist. Fried crickets be poppin.
@@jimL-69420they're meaning its not direct horizontal gene transfer straight from the genome of another organism. I've used CRISPR-CAS9 myself to edit bacterial genomes in my college labs. You can use it to do a lot of things, including inserting or substituting individual nucleotide changes. So instead of taking a gene from one plant and putting it in another, you can tweak individual letters (nucleotide bases) of genes in the target organism. You're not inserting DNA from another organism, but directly editing the target organism's gene. So it's not technically transgenic. There's plenty of ways to do this also. Like I said, CRISPR-CAS9 has a lot of uses. In my case we had a mutant gene which contained a "stop" codon early in the sequence. That codon tells the proteins that are reading the DNA to stop reading it there. So, most of the gene doesn't get read and the gene becomes entirely nonfunctional, which is what we were trying to do in that lab. That stop codon doesn't have to come from another organism though. The genetic code is universal and every organism has stop codons. So long as you input any of the three nucleotide combinations that codes for a stop codon in a gene, the gene will stop being read at that point. As far as the food goes there's not a difference between whether DNA is transgenic or not. But using CRISPR-CAS9 to modify the crop is very exciting to me on its own. There's so much more you can do with that as opposed to relying on ways to insert existing genes. You can insert existing genes with CRISPR-CAS9 as well, and it's so much more precise to do so.
@@noahmeme2it isn't going to matter. The genetic code is entirely universal so it really doesn't matter where the genes come from, so long as the "letters" are the same. Just like how it doesn't matter whether you copy letters from somewhere else or type them yourself. Letters are letters. It's easier to use an existing gene though because it's easier to know what that gene does. Still plenty of reason for doing that. But this sort of CRISPR-CAS9 engineering allows for so much more precision than you can get otherwise, which makes it very exciting.
Highly advise to read the Code Breaker book, it’s all about CRISPR technology and a powerful women scientists story who got the Nobel prize for it. One of my favorites for sure! 📖📚
It’s literally just what humans have done for tens of thousands of years, but on a much faster scale and without having to wait for nature to do it for us. Because this literally is no different than selective breeding, instead of slowly breeding plants and selecting ones with the mutations we would like them to have, we can just do it ourselves and know the outcome beforehand. Make no mistake, we could make the EXACT same plant without crispr, it would just simply take tens or maybe even hundreds of years of selective breeding to accomplish it, and considering we might not even have a livable planet in 100 years, best not leave it up to time, yeah?
Except it is different, because gunking around with the actual genetic material bears the potential to f something up unintentionally. With selective breeding, you start with an organism known to be viable and, e.g., not deadly. With genetic editing, who knows what you'll end up with. "Hey, we made this plant less bitter. Also, it kills bees. Whoops."
There is a big difference in breeding two genetically compatible species and completely modifying their genetic make up. One is done by nature, one is done by humans who have a limited knowledge of how DNA works.
@@jackflash6377 selective breeding really isn't all that nature related... I mean, you can breed animals into shapes that literally kill them faster eg many breeds of animals having health issues and living shorter lives. Also scientists knowing not that much of DNA is also a limiting factor. Cispr isn't some sort of free form tool. You need to be able to directly identify what the enzyme is gonna cut out / add in. The process is quite complex and doesn't leave room for unforseen effects literally bc you can't change anything you don't know about, I lack the English terms to explain more clearly how it works but I suggest you educate on It yourself there are many free resources.
@@jackflash6377 uh, no? both are being done by humans, because it's a deliberate act that we're performing that wouldn't be happening otherwise that's like saying all of the dog breeds we've made happened by nature and not because of us, like yeah pal i'm sure nature extensively bred dachshunds to be really long with stubby legs by pure coincidence
I only heard in school about a salad that they bread to be less bitter, and wild rabbits started dying, because they wouldn't feel full without the bitters in the plants
No one cares about that. Even tho they will shut down the construction of a highway because it may impact the mating patterns of a bird. Selective environmental concern. CRISPR = playing god without having the knowledge.
See... that's just it. Everyone is so quick to jump on the trend of genetically modifying food (which is what this still is, genetic modification, it's just that it's the plant's own DNA being modified, rather than new DNA being added), that they don't stop to think about the harm screwing with nature without considering the consequences can do. That's really heartbreaking to hear about the rabbits! I so wish that we as humans would learn to pause, and consider the risks of what we're doing before we do it, so as to prevent the real harm we can do by not taking the necessary precautions to prevent such harm.
@@crow_featherI mean this is a very early experiment. Your right people should test and make sure what there doing isn't harmful and if it is change it. But gmos are an incredible tool and not something that should be banned just because of the possibility of something going wrong.
@@alargecrab9146 Yeah, try telling that to the rapidly increasing number of conservation scientists and medical doctors who both strongly disagree with you.
4 years ago I gave my final presentation on crispr. I’m prone to heat induced for some odd reason and it just so happened I was giving that presentation on a hot June day. How ironic my own genetics failed me while presenting how we can improve them
@@stellar783 I don't think so neither but I would be very grossed out personally it reminds me of those fancy flavors many hyper processed products end up tasting like
Damn this is such a good idea. I'll definitely be more inclined to eat and enjoy salads more if it actually tastes good without adding lots of dressing. As a pescatarian I like to eat vegetables but I'm not forcing myself to pretend to enjoy salads, cuz I don't and will never
This is awesome! I wrote and gave a speech about CRISPR and what it can do. I’m in high school and got to compete with my Crispr speech in FFA contests. CRISPR has so much potential to help people and improve our food chain.
By editing different parts of the salad gene. The bitterness gene and the resistance gene is not in the same loci or place, and must be edited using crispr, for example, separately.
I read a great article (New Scientist) about The benefits of phytonutrients years ago and how basically the health benefits of broccoli are massively over stated because the bitternoids that have been so servely reduced, through selective breeding to make it more palatable, that they dont give the benefits anymore
@@ryanwillingham it's less about the invisibility and more the limited shape-shifting. I see it as a way to get an animated tattoo that can just disappear on command and also a way to make minor cosmetic changes if and when I feel like it. Like just imagine you have a job interview in the morning, a sports game in the afternoon, and you're going to a club at night. For the interview, you could go plain with no markings or anything and use the minor ability to deform your skin to enhance your appearance and look more professional, during the game you could change the pigment in your face to match your team's colors, and at the club you could you could do the facial enhancements again but make a unique sleeve tattoo that even slowly moves and changes.
@@heehoopeanut420Hey, if it gets people to eat more vegetables then I'm on board! People can be as picky as they want as long as they eat their greens.
My biology class just watched a documentary on CRISPR and while there are good things like how they are using it here, they are starting to use it on humans and might be able to alter a baby’s genetic code to let the parents decide what hair or eye color their child will have, and in dogs they are making beagles grow more muscle mass and this could be done on humans (essentially creating a captain America) and used as weapons of war. So while this is great, there needs to be some sort of line that is drawn to stop inethical behavior and practices, such as making humans in a lab with 2% bird dna to be poked and prodded like in the sci-fi novel Maximum Ride
Hi, there's a moratorium, a world wide ban, on editing of embryos and germ line cells (so sperm and eggs) using CRISPR. So there's currently no push to start using this tech to make designer babies or whatever. There's some clinical trials using gene editing as gene therapy but the tech is in its infancy and, where humans are involved, is extremely complex, expensive, and with a lot of safety restrictions by regulatory agencies like FDA. I hope that reassures you somewhat
I know traditional GMOs and CRISPR are different techniques, but, the term "Genetically modified organisms" still totally fits the description of a CRISPR food😂
@@kiwimutante1633 Of course, but that doesn't say anything. She's flashing skin for views. That will, of course, work. Maybe a bikini, because that's a style of clothing too. I'd watch.
THIS is what I'm excited to tell my grandkids. That I was around to see CRISPR's development. Toss out all the bad stuff that keeps happening. _This_ is the change I want to focus on.
Child:“Mooooooooom my vegetables taste baddd”
Mom: *opens editing software*
year 4000 probably
Extra spicy
they already got foods that are spicy enough to kill. @@Flyguy6025
Lol😂😂😂 yess
haha nice one!
"I really dont like the taste of this bro"
"Hold on man lemme just open up the world editor and add a tinge of chocolate"
😂😭💀
@@pinguuthepenguinoh no you died
Chocolate mint plant
I mean we've done it with a ton of things. Look at the guy who was sick of Brussel Sprouts, and went to work for years to make them sweeter!
Fact is humans have been screwing with plant genetics creating different cultivars for a long time. CRISPR is just a scalpel opposed to uhhh... A chisel.
Ever see or taste many plants and what they use to be just even a few centuries ago?! Like holy hell you can hardly recognize some.
Corn, apples, and bananas come to mind. Hell good luck getting edible apples from a true seed!
We just need to crack all flavors. I don't buy that we only taste 4 things at all. There is more than sweet, sour, bitter, and umami.
And people still believe in a god that could be even more powerfull than us. Like hell nah we edit DNA and make rocks do calculations💪
Crispr has been a revolutionary new discovery for a while. I made a presentation on it at school in 7th grade! There are so many things that we can do with crispr and this is just scratching the surface!
Are you now in like 9th grade.?
@@pork4U
im in second year uni but we talked about it at least in year 10 i think, i assume its been talked about for signifigantly longer
I think this technology has been popular among kids since 6 years ago.
just a fancier way to do what we have been doing up until this point...
Omg me too... We learned abt it ib grade 7 and now im almost graduating highschool
CRISPR has a potential to change a lot of things, from nutrition to health care. Wondering how this would be a few years from now
There is already an aproved treatment that utilises crispr editing to modify blood cells
politics is against health tho, as it is against crispr
Hopefully, that potential doesn't get used for something sinister.
crispr + 3d printing + ai... things are changing very fast, gotta keep people from falling behind
It won't be used, we just voted in a shit load of anti scientist Christofacist
As long as CRISPR can make my lettuce crisper, I’m all for it.
Ba dum dum tssss
no. that is not how it works. short term you are editing plants DNA to make it taste better but there is no saying what domino effect it will create once the seeds are grown in field and the pollen from these crispr plants mix with native non edited DNA species. crispr is very different from hydridization or selective trait breeding. editing DNA is pandora box. you never know what it will unleash.
@@lordjaashin You know that nature edits DNA all the time? It's called "mutations". And unlike CRISPR, nature doesn't care at all whether the results are safe for human consumption.
never seen someone more wrong@@lordjaashin
Turned a phrase nicely
no way the new salad 2.0 just dropped
We got salad 2.0 before gta6
😂😂😂@@lilsoysauce1609
it will be more than that. much worse. not just about salad.
It will be used to edit human longevity. And that means it will become a commodity of the ultra rich. Also, that means the ultra rich will no longer strategize towards leaving a legacy upon their deaths, but to be immortal, and therefore hoarding all the riches in the world, destroying a lot of lives and livelihood in the process.
real @@lilsoysauce1609
Lol beat me to it@@lilsoysauce1609
My Muscular dystrophy is gonna be treated using crisper which is nice
I was just talking with a friend who is involved in that research! He explained all about why crispr editing is more powerful than older gene therapy, and it was dystrophy research funding that made all that progress possible
@@Scarybug oh that's amazing Glad to get news on this
I had a good pal growing up who i lost contact with who had muscular dystrophy, I hope she hears about this and it does her good! As with you!
You're gonna taste so good
a guy having muscular dystrophy? this shi is rare
"this tastes so bad"
"what are you gonna do? make it taste better?"
"say that again"
I’ve been waiting for CRISPR to actually make things crispier for ages!
been there :D
it will be more than that. much worse.
It will be used to edit human longevity. And that means it will become a commodity of the ultra rich. Also, that means the ultra rich will no longer strategize towards leaving a legacy upon their deaths, but to be immortal, and therefore hoarding all the riches in the world, destroying a lot of lives and livelihood in the process.
The most exciting potential of CRISPR to me is the potential to make cold hardy variants of tropical plants. I'm trying to do that at the moment through selective breeding, but there's no guarantee that it'll ever work.
shout out to you for that actually selective breeding is so annoying cause you get one trait but then the entire taste changes or it only keeps ripe for like a day
@@macandfries6765 Yeah. It's why I'm hoping to focus on one goal at a time, then reintroduce traits later on. I'm working on cold hardy rootstocks of topicals in a greenhouse rather than flavor, because a rootstock that's cold hardy of plants such as tamarind (the seeds are easy to get) is what's most important to me.
I could potentially graft better tasting cultivars onto it (they might not stay grafted over a freeze. This is all an experiment). Again, I'm very new to this, and with selective breeding, but if I manage to succeed, I can really do something big when it comes to farming and selling uncommon fruits in my region.
@@earlyej3008 good luck!
What about making them hardy against extreme heat? You know, global warming and all that.
Also the opposite, heat and especially drought resistant varieties of edible plants will be extremely important to life as the climate catastrophe worsens
As a biotechnology student CRISPR is one of my favourite topics to study and research on I love the technology so much!
I took an environmental sustainability class in high school and CRISPR was such an interesting concept! If I remember correctly our lab project on it was to make E. Coli bioluminescent, it was so fun! I could only imagine the type of research you conduct being in biotech
Hi, can you explain why modifying dna with genes from he same species is different from the "Modified" in "Genetically Modified Organism"? I dont see it, you are still toying with dna
@@thebigbo hey, so to put in very simple terms it is like taking genetic material from the same organism/ species and altering it to make desire changes but with Recombination , one can combine genetic material of at least two organisms irrespective of their species to get desired traits or properties
@@ethanthao3704omg that’s sounds so fun! I am so glad you enjoyed it. Well I have only recently done my bachelors so I haven’t had much chance to play around CRISPR yet but I am hoping I can involve it more in my masters studies :)
@@dikshakankaran212 I mean, if we would do this to humans wouldn't it be potentially eugenetics, or controlling the genes of a possible future child, like the colour of the eyes or height?
does better mean sweeter? editing plant genomes to make foods more sweet could be a double edged sword
Removing the bitterness is very different from adding sweetness, nutritionally
Taste also has a lot to do with how our brains function and evolve. Acquired tastes are an amazing adapted response to changes in available food sources.
Lol sweet does not equal better. There's a reason so many people prefer their coffee and tea without sugar, and it's not always a healthy thing.
Fun fact, when made correctly, coffee doesn't taste bad when drunk at room temperature. That heat, cold, sugar or cream is just to cover up some of the bitter bits that may seep out of the bean.
imagine global obesity levels when they make celery taste like fried chicken
That’s what I’m sayin
Then they should go down.
📉📉📉
You can simply fry it in onion powder, salt, and brown sugar - you’ll get a similar result :)
@@lianxie5582 not really since the idea is to not have it contain any fats or sugar. It would be safe to eat and not gain weight.
She’s so wholesome and happy about what she talks about. I feel like she and Hank (?) Green would be friends ❤
Yes Hank is the right one
I don't think she would be doing what she is doing without Hank Green having done it first, propping her channel up. Another of my biases would be that she is attempting to add a "rainbows and unicorns" vibe to areas of science that would love to dissect that unicorn and it's vibe. In only one of her videos was I accepting of the lightheartedness. The rest have been the saltiest stuff I have ever drank. Like the James Webb telescope is not looking for an answer to prayers but an ending to them. (i.e. it's looking for dark matter or ether, all of it's funding is for it to find an invisible substance 😂)
Yeah, it’s called acting. She’s Pepe happy and giving bite-size pieces of information that has some truth in it to make us feel really good about the whole situation. When in reality. This is old technology that’s been being used for like 50 years. They have use the technology on many fruits and vegetables and that’s why it’s actually called genetic modification because they’re modifying the current genetics. Not adding new. She is an actress who is selling you something. Wholesome? it’s just an act.
@@salemrosales4259 not really. traditional GMO techniques that have been used for the past 50 years involve using DNA from different species.
afaik, i don't think there was any way to just reliably tweak DNA however we want without using e
@@fruitygranulizer540im sorry, but does not GMO stand for Genetically Modified Organism? Isnt "editing" a way to "modify"? I dont see why this isnt gmo.
little plant: exists
Scientists: we can rebuild it. We have the technology.
Stronger, Better, tastier 😂😂
The problem is that the bitter taste is a lot of its nutritional value. The antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds are often bitter. If we spend time eating these, we get used to the taste. If we eat processed foods all the time, with mild flavours, we lose our taste for these bitter compounds
Using your critical thinking skills if you have any you could realize she didn't need to say that they are editing the DNA of these things to alter the flavor not the nutrients. Even a simple google search will show you that it does not change the nutritional value so your argument really only comes down to "people should just suck it up and eat things they don't like to get used to it"
@LaucenChevaleir Google is just a search engine, not an encyclopaedia. Whenever we use it we also need the discernment to distinguish reliable information from unreliable, evidence-based facts from opinions. A particular danger with Google is that it tends to feed our beliefs back to us, in an information bubble.
@@LaucenChevaleir I mean they should just suck it up. If you really want to eat healthy and get healthier you won't be such a wuss
Not everything natural is good, you know right?. For example, oxalates
not all bitter tasting is good, it is also one of defense mechanism we have to ascertain something is bad
They don't need to be cooked, but blanching can help. The bitter complements an acidic vinaigrette! Mustard greens, with olive oil, lemon juice, and honey is sooooo delicious! Brassica is an amazing plant family!
What if you just hate anything bitter? Complimentary doesn't matter at that point, better to remove it entirely
@@Grizzlyscar are you a baby?
Most bitter tastes are from poisons (yes, I know there are edible bitter things, but bitter is a warning from the plant that says to "spit it out or else") so I have to wonder if this will make them *less* pest resistant.
It wont as it mostly is a different gene. Other parts also take of the resistance, Same as with resistance for foods that aren't bitter anyway.
@@meloneyyeah though the bad taste is part of what repels pests
@@orbismworldbuilding8428Not always. And is not often the case. There are different ways of defending from pests. Bitter and astringent tastes are more commonly used to repel larger herbivores rather than smaller invertebrate pests.
Most plants have multiple ways in which to ward off different types of predators. I doubt that the substance that tastes bitter to humans is the only thing it has for warding off pests.
Sometimes, but a lot of chemicals that repel bugs don’t affect humans the same way. Like, plants that use caffeine didn’t count on humans enjoying it more lol
I especially enjoy optimistic science stories pertaining to agriculture! I'm an itty bitty beginner homestead hobbyist, and nothing gets my gears going quite like things that you can grow and then eat.
I wrote a essay on this back in middle school glad its finally getting the recognition it deserves 👊
I would love to see sources in the description of your shorts ! It would help a lot. Great video once again
Does she have longer videos with sources?
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@@cgi2173No, and there aren't any sources in the description either, which you can access from the three-dot menu.
Can't you just Google the company? She makes it in the video.
Actually I did@@malindarayallen . But they didn't put details... she might not have the source either sadly...
I can't wait for salad to taste like CHOCOLATE. Boy would I be healthy 😮😂🍫 ❤
pretty sure that's literally impossible but not certain could anyone follow up?
That's brilliant!! I'd be way healthier too!! Because I'm a chocoholic!! ❤️👍
@@cact0s_ulion405 it's technically not impossible, but we're still pretty far from that level of precision.
@@feuerling Precision aside, I meant 'is it possible to make something that tastes sweet but doesn't actually have any sugars.' I just realized something though. Its the same as normal sugar, just flipped. SO a VEERY short summary is that life evolved, theres was naturally 2 types of things (left handed and right handed molecules) and life evolved to right handed molecules. So now life is just incompatible with left handed sugar, yet for humans we can still taste it, just that our body isn't affected. IF we could genetically engineer a 'mirror' plant (which is technically possible but I'm pretty sure would be a hell of a lot of work) then sure we could get food that tastes sweet and yet has none that matters.
However if we ignore mirrored sugar is it possible to make a plant which tastes sweet but is healthy/not unhealthy?
@@cact0s_ulion405 stevia. But sweetness (even if it isn't sugar) still messes with our insulin levels, so it's not good to eat it too often.
I love the bitterness of mustard green especially when it is sauteed or stir fried.
I like bitterness too but not in salad and in realty bitterness = toxic. The bitterness not only deters animals from eating it but also insects, because they are poisoned by it. This means it may not grow very well in the large scale organically with this modification.
@@skyworm8006The bitterness deters large animals. Insects require stronger chemicals which don’t affect herbivores more robust digestive systems.
Case in point, poison ivy has toxins to deter insects, but most mammals except humans can easily eat it.
Cleo, you are the best. Don't stop.
heeeey, I remember learning about CRISPR in my ethics class. There were discussions about possibly using this with humans and somewhere in Asia a scientist actually did so to a set of twins and they were born with the genetics to be immune to HIV or something and it was a big ethical delemma
The only problem I have with GMO's is Monsanto's (now, Bayer) greed and culpability in India's farmer
the problem with GMOs is the lack of an open source ecosystem. that prevents people from looking into what is actually being done to these produce.
@@gasun1274 I mean you could if you have the technology to do it but that's pretty expensive so luckily there are dozens of peer reviewed articles that tell you exactly what they did and how it works.
@@gasun1274 GMOs also apply to selective breeding and cross breeding and adding fungi to the soil.
@@RedQuill13 Not technically.
The way Monsanto edits plants’ genomes so the seeds they produce are infertile is straight up evil. I’m all for GMOs, but practices like this have to be stopped.
Mustard green hearts with salted egg boiled in chicken stock. Easily one of my fav dishes. No edits needed
Yeah because you cook out the bitter flavour. She specifically says this is to make them also suitable for raw consumption
@@group555_ that is not correct. The bitter flavour is still there and it’s an acquired taste to be honest. It’s the same as bitter melon which we also love.
Unrelated but a recent Netflix doc about longest living cities has people in Okinawa eating a lot of bitter melon. I wonder if the bitter taste has some correlation to the high levels of beneficial nutrients.
I still remember talking about crispr in school ages ago. At that time it was barely starting to be used and we even discussed the potential future risks and benefits of it. It's crazy to see how far its come now
i already know this is going to get turned into a conspiracy
Yep. Pull up a chair and your favourite snack. 😂
They already exist don't you worry :')
Thank you scientific Natalie Portman. Me learn many with your video
They have also used crispr to treat cancer through editing t cells and to treat sickle cell anemia through changing the blood back to teenage settings... If there is an epigenetic cure for aging it's right there.
No eugenics pls
@@clown.mp4413 this eugenics doesn't involve killing people.
@@clown.mp4413 The whole concept of eugenics is ridiculous when you can just fix debilitating genetic defects like sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, or scid.
Epigenetics does not equal eugenics.
@@strings1984 maybe they're worried about people making designer babies with gene editing
well, i'm glad they used crispr and not softr because nobody wants a soggy salad
Nooo, but I genuinely love the taste of bitter greens!!
I'm all for genetically engineering crops, but I hope it doesn't lead to a future where bitter, sour, and anything but sweet & savory is erased from food to suit the tastes of the majority. We already see that a bit in how much added sugar is in everything, and it just kills the complexity of so many flavors. :(
Love the capabilities of the technology / Scared of the overall impact of the unknowns from its long term implementation
FRRRRRRR
This is gonna be a really interesting conversation in 20 years.
it will be more than that. much worse.
It will be used to edit human longevity. And that means it will become a commodity of the ultra rich. Also, that means the ultra rich will no longer strategize towards leaving a legacy upon their deaths, but to be immortal, and therefore hoarding all the riches in the world, destroying a lot of lives and livelihood in the process.
Positive science stories… this is literally exactly what I need in my life
"You're not getting up until you've finished your salad."
"I'm scared of my salad!"
I down salads all the time. I'd love to try one made with these little treats!
So now vegans can enjoy new taste
You’re absolutely correct, this salad doesn’t contain flesh so vegans can enjoy it as well as vegetarians and meat-eaters!
Well I'm not vegan, but if good food actually tastes good I may become one.
Wider variety of greens tastes than meat tastes exist, but exposure is handled poorly and is often limited.
@@KCUFyoufordoxingme I don't believe that to be true. So many different animals to eat that you don't find in supermarkets. Also insects exist. Fried crickets be poppin.
Wtf eat your vegetables vegan or not
Mannn I remember when CRISPR was first being talked about and seeing it become so accessible is insane
Correction. It is a GMO, but it's not a transgenic.
She never said it wasn’t GMO, she said it’s not what we normally think as GMO.
I'm fine with gmo as long as the genetics come from another plant like the big purple tomato.
there's no foreign material added tho, it uses its own genetic code? Sounds transgenic if you've ever took a word for face value lol
@@jimL-69420they're meaning its not direct horizontal gene transfer straight from the genome of another organism. I've used CRISPR-CAS9 myself to edit bacterial genomes in my college labs. You can use it to do a lot of things, including inserting or substituting individual nucleotide changes.
So instead of taking a gene from one plant and putting it in another, you can tweak individual letters (nucleotide bases) of genes in the target organism. You're not inserting DNA from another organism, but directly editing the target organism's gene. So it's not technically transgenic. There's plenty of ways to do this also. Like I said, CRISPR-CAS9 has a lot of uses. In my case we had a mutant gene which contained a "stop" codon early in the sequence. That codon tells the proteins that are reading the DNA to stop reading it there. So, most of the gene doesn't get read and the gene becomes entirely nonfunctional, which is what we were trying to do in that lab. That stop codon doesn't have to come from another organism though. The genetic code is universal and every organism has stop codons. So long as you input any of the three nucleotide combinations that codes for a stop codon in a gene, the gene will stop being read at that point.
As far as the food goes there's not a difference between whether DNA is transgenic or not. But using CRISPR-CAS9 to modify the crop is very exciting to me on its own. There's so much more you can do with that as opposed to relying on ways to insert existing genes. You can insert existing genes with CRISPR-CAS9 as well, and it's so much more precise to do so.
@@noahmeme2it isn't going to matter. The genetic code is entirely universal so it really doesn't matter where the genes come from, so long as the "letters" are the same. Just like how it doesn't matter whether you copy letters from somewhere else or type them yourself. Letters are letters.
It's easier to use an existing gene though because it's easier to know what that gene does. Still plenty of reason for doing that. But this sort of CRISPR-CAS9 engineering allows for so much more precision than you can get otherwise, which makes it very exciting.
Hey dad? The uh vegetables just phased through my plate.
Highly advise to read the Code Breaker book, it’s all about CRISPR technology and a powerful women scientists story who got the Nobel prize for it. One of my favorites for sure! 📖📚
Thank you for the rec!
As someone who’s worked with CRISPR before, it’s a very interesting way to edit DNA and I would really like to see a video on it
It’s literally just what humans have done for tens of thousands of years, but on a much faster scale and without having to wait for nature to do it for us. Because this literally is no different than selective breeding, instead of slowly breeding plants and selecting ones with the mutations we would like them to have, we can just do it ourselves and know the outcome beforehand. Make no mistake, we could make the EXACT same plant without crispr, it would just simply take tens or maybe even hundreds of years of selective breeding to accomplish it, and considering we might not even have a livable planet in 100 years, best not leave it up to time, yeah?
Except it is different, because gunking around with the actual genetic material bears the potential to f something up unintentionally. With selective breeding, you start with an organism known to be viable and, e.g., not deadly. With genetic editing, who knows what you'll end up with. "Hey, we made this plant less bitter. Also, it kills bees. Whoops."
There is a big difference in breeding two genetically compatible species and completely modifying their genetic make up. One is done by nature, one is done by humans who have a limited knowledge of how DNA works.
@@jackflash6377 selective breeding really isn't all that nature related... I mean, you can breed animals into shapes that literally kill them faster eg many breeds of animals having health issues and living shorter lives. Also scientists knowing not that much of DNA is also a limiting factor. Cispr isn't some sort of free form tool. You need to be able to directly identify what the enzyme is gonna cut out / add in. The process is quite complex and doesn't leave room for unforseen effects literally bc you can't change anything you don't know about, I lack the English terms to explain more clearly how it works but I suggest you educate on It yourself there are many free resources.
@@jackflash6377 uh, no? both are being done by humans, because it's a deliberate act that we're performing that wouldn't be happening otherwise
that's like saying all of the dog breeds we've made happened by nature and not because of us, like yeah pal i'm sure nature extensively bred dachshunds to be really long with stubby legs by pure coincidence
The biggest difference is that genetic modification is far, far safer than traditional selective breeding.
I only heard in school about a salad that they bread to be less bitter, and wild rabbits started dying, because they wouldn't feel full without the bitters in the plants
No one cares about that. Even tho they will shut down the construction of a highway because it may impact the mating patterns of a bird. Selective environmental concern.
CRISPR = playing god without having the knowledge.
See... that's just it. Everyone is so quick to jump on the trend of genetically modifying food (which is what this still is, genetic modification, it's just that it's the plant's own DNA being modified, rather than new DNA being added), that they don't stop to think about the harm screwing with nature without considering the consequences can do. That's really heartbreaking to hear about the rabbits! I so wish that we as humans would learn to pause, and consider the risks of what we're doing before we do it, so as to prevent the real harm we can do by not taking the necessary precautions to prevent such harm.
@@crow_featherI mean this is a very early experiment. Your right people should test and make sure what there doing isn't harmful and if it is change it. But gmos are an incredible tool and not something that should be banned just because of the possibility of something going wrong.
@@alargecrab9146 Yeah, try telling that to the rapidly increasing number of conservation scientists and medical doctors who both strongly disagree with you.
@@crow_feather They do? Weird.
4 years ago I gave my final presentation on crispr. I’m prone to heat induced for some odd reason and it just so happened I was giving that presentation on a hot June day. How ironic my own genetics failed me while presenting how we can improve them
oh in my biotech class during this year (Senior in hs) we're talking about CRISPR
How they just need to make salad taste like candy and meat and everyone will love it.
That would be gross tbh. A salad is a salad.
@@earedrobot7906cry, weep, seeth, brood, wallow,
@@earedrobot7906ain't nothing wrong with having options
People need to evolve from their childhood tastebuds.
@@stellar783 I don't think so neither but I would be very grossed out personally it reminds me of those fancy flavors many hyper processed products end up tasting like
Would you keep it in the CRISPR drawer?
😂
Damn this is such a good idea. I'll definitely be more inclined to eat and enjoy salads more if it actually tastes good without adding lots of dressing. As a pescatarian I like to eat vegetables but I'm not forcing myself to pretend to enjoy salads, cuz I don't and will never
Q. What is a werewolf's favourite salad green?
A. Aroooogula.
This is awesome! I wrote and gave a speech about CRISPR and what it can do. I’m in high school and got to compete with my Crispr speech in FFA contests. CRISPR has so much potential to help people and improve our food chain.
I loveeee mustard greens RAW!
As the plant's dna is altered, even if by using crispr, it's still GMO
Same as inbreed pugs, white peacocks and so many pets with health problems
@@alexg.5850 Not the same. You really think humans know everything there is to know about genetics and DNA? Nature does, humans don't.
She never even said it wasn't lmao
"these aren't what we traditionally think of as gmo"
@@eddieolsson5449 yes that says that they are gmo but not the traditional variant.
We learnt about crisper in science last year with a like 3 hour documentary it was actually so cool to learn about
How do they reduce bitterness and maintain pest resistance at the same time? 🤔
Great question. Likely this is just a proof of concept.
@@MeppyMannot really, resistance gene had already been applied in the agricultural sector
By editing different parts of the salad gene. The bitterness gene and the resistance gene is not in the same loci or place, and must be edited using crispr, for example, separately.
By growing it in a greenhouse or hydroponic setup I guess...
@@armanidlanhaidisyeah though the bad taste is part of what repels pests
Nice shirt Cleo
If I bite into an apple and it tastes like an orange I’m throwing hands
I read a great article (New Scientist) about The benefits of phytonutrients years ago and how basically the health benefits of broccoli are massively over stated because the bitternoids that have been so servely reduced, through selective breeding to make it more palatable, that they dont give the benefits anymore
Cool, so how long until I can have wings?
You get wings i get cuttlfish skin
@@tellg0t090 the flight vs. invisibility question returns once again
@@ryanwillingham it's less about the invisibility and more the limited shape-shifting. I see it as a way to get an animated tattoo that can just disappear on command and also a way to make minor cosmetic changes if and when I feel like it. Like just imagine you have a job interview in the morning, a sports game in the afternoon, and you're going to a club at night. For the interview, you could go plain with no markings or anything and use the minor ability to deform your skin to enhance your appearance and look more professional, during the game you could change the pigment in your face to match your team's colors, and at the club you could you could do the facial enhancements again but make a unique sleeve tattoo that even slowly moves and changes.
That shirt looks so good on her
Belly buttons
Mustard greens tasted great as is
Agree. People are just too picky and wont try new things.
@@heehoopeanut420 ok, go eat bakers chocolate then and report on how much you liked the bitterness on a scale from one to ten
@@heehoopeanut420Hey, if it gets people to eat more vegetables then I'm on board! People can be as picky as they want as long as they eat their greens.
@@Dysfunctionality15if you're actually hungry, you're not that picky. Some people are just babies
@@MisterMick113I can go a week without eating & I will still refuse to eat a tomato.
You’re just weak of will.
Imagine being a farmer and you have to go and install an update on your field
Remember to store your CRISPR edited vegetables in the crisper drawer.
I like my salads crisp, but not sure I like them CRISPR. Time will tell
This is just speedrunning selective plant breeding. Which has been around forever
The only issue with GMOs is the politics/corruption. The actual food itself is perfectly harmless.
You're 100% sure about that?
My biology class just watched a documentary on CRISPR and while there are good things like how they are using it here, they are starting to use it on humans and might be able to alter a baby’s genetic code to let the parents decide what hair or eye color their child will have, and in dogs they are making beagles grow more muscle mass and this could be done on humans (essentially creating a captain America) and used as weapons of war. So while this is great, there needs to be some sort of line that is drawn to stop inethical behavior and practices, such as making humans in a lab with 2% bird dna to be poked and prodded like in the sci-fi novel Maximum Ride
Hi, there's a moratorium, a world wide ban, on editing of embryos and germ line cells (so sperm and eggs) using CRISPR. So there's currently no push to start using this tech to make designer babies or whatever. There's some clinical trials using gene editing as gene therapy but the tech is in its infancy and, where humans are involved, is extremely complex, expensive, and with a lot of safety restrictions by regulatory agencies like FDA. I hope that reassures you somewhat
we need this, especially with what is happening with our climate. Imagine typhoon flood drought resistant crops
I know traditional GMOs and CRISPR are different techniques, but, the term "Genetically modified organisms" still totally fits the description of a CRISPR food😂
So it's salad, but crisper.
The bitter is the medicine. 😔
Exactly they are so stupid
Often yeah, so oof
? Wat bro
Did it make the lettuce.... crisper?
Have you ever been to a Krispy Kreme? Was it Krispy?
"Bro school food is shit"
"Hol up lemme pull out the level editor"
sorry your belly button keeps distracting me. I need to rewatch.
bruh
Yes!!! I LOVE eating new GMOs!!
Cleo showing a belly button. 😊
😮
you two are just weird
My day is always better if I start with learning something new from Cleo.
Thanks Cleo.
Great to see some stomach action from Cleo
ugh
not great to see people like you
She's showing belly button now. Are her likes and subs down?
Brother it's just a style of clothing
@@kiwimutante1633 Of course, but that doesn't say anything. She's flashing skin for views. That will, of course, work. Maybe a bikini, because that's a style of clothing too. I'd watch.
@@Kube_Dogthen you're just weird, i don't know what to tell you
I can see your bellybutton 👍
Love your shorts on YT, Cleo! Good going!!
The next step is genetically modifying grasshoppers so they taste good..
Cleo your content is sooo good. Thank you.
This is some pretty good progress. Haven't heard any updates on CRISPR in a while.
Side note, I actually really like the biterness of dark greens.
You are very smart keep posting!❤
New salad dropped before GTA 6
THIS is what I'm excited to tell my grandkids. That I was around to see CRISPR's development. Toss out all the bad stuff that keeps happening. _This_ is the change I want to focus on.
I learn something new everyday from you. Keep up the great work ❤
This would mean we're 1 step closer to dinosaurs again, right?
I love your content ❤🎉😊. Thanx from Germany
I hope one day CRISPR fulfills my dream of making the blue raspberry a real fruit
I first found out about CRISPR via fanfic. No I will not elaborate 😂
No ma'am! Mustard greens never tasted bad
I know right? Like one of the best tasting greens raw lmao, maybe like collards or turnip greens would make more sense 😅
"Grown in the field". I see what you did there.
HOLD UP I CAN GROW UNSAPPABLE SENTRIES NOW?!
ZEUS!! GIVE ME PIZZA FLAVOURED LETTUCE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!
It's Ares and not Zeus that Kratos makes a deal with 🤓
@@Blue_color_of_control ZEUS!! SILENCE THIS NERD AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!
no way we got Salad 2.0 before Gta 6
Can't wait for my salad to receive it's software update