Breakthroughs in RNA Science: From Pond Scum to Life-Saving Medicine--Dr. Philip Bevilacqua, Penn State University

Dr. Philip Bevilacqua from Penn State University traces RNA’s origins in outer space to the primordial soup of early Earth to its starring role in today’s medical breakthroughs, offering a plain-language look at how this once-overlooked molecule is now powering CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene editing, an improved flu vaccine and the fight against diseases like Ebola.  He spoke at the Telluride Mountain Village Conference Center and veteran broadcast journalists Judy Muller and George Lewis served as moderators.