# The disease-eradicating potential of gene editing

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxBeaconStreet
- Speaker: Tal Zaks
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/tal_zaks_the_disease_eradicating_potential_of_gene_editing)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

If our cells are the hardware and our genetic material the operating system, what if we could change a few lines of code? In this cutting-edge science talk, oncologist Dr. Tal Zaks reviews the future of personalized medicine, which may lie with gene-editing vaccines tailored to each patient's immune system, teaching it to overcome the genetic mutations that trigger diseases like cancer.

## Lectures

1. [The disease-eradicating potential of gene editing](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/tal_zaks_the_disease_eradicating_potential_of_gene_editing/390f23bbf1e0), 11 min (TED's player)