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>> then the sound. there is literally nothing that any rockuirist has ever pled since chuck berry that is not partly chuck berry. the core rifts of the songs that we have been talking about here are the genetic code for every rock guitarist after. hes in everything. >> and in the genetic code of the three bands of the 1960s who changed everything. the beach boys, they just lifted songs straight out. of course, the rolling stones. >> and the beatles. >> remember live album in 1970? they had ten s...

Hiv by sex by more than 90%. new york city department of health played a major role in getting the drug truvada fda-approved in 2012. >> the way it works in prevention is really similar in that you have a level of the drug that develops in cells, target cells for hiv infection. so, if someone is exposed to hiv and hiv happens to get in that cell, all of a sudden it hits a major stop sign and it cannot reproduce its own genetic code. it cant produce genetic code, it cant become a replicating viru...

Thinking on the moral frontiers you might say do i want a baby with blue eyes or green eyes, but i want somebody with this personality traitor be that way. that power could be in our hands though, right? >> it is in our hands today because -- except we dont know the genetics of different personality traits yet. >> its terrifying though. >> i find it extremely exciting. that depends on how you use the information. right now from preimplantation testing, its been used, you can select a cell. we ca...

>> 29-year-old toms genetic journey began at birth. his parents never told him about his repository past, raising him as if he were just like any other child. but on the inside, written in his dna, was the genetic code for academic excellence. >> did you do well in school? >> oh, yeah, very well in school. when i got to high school, i actually started taking college courses as a freshman. i have a near identic memory, when i read something or hear it, it recalls faster than most people. >> been ...

That will give him his ride. and in orbit a year of his life will be in the real version, not this model of the space station. >> theres not a lot of room in here. pretty comfortable for space bedroom. >> we need to figure out how people are going to live in space for really long periods of time. especially if we want to send someone to mars. or maybe want to send people to -- they want to one day build a base on the moon. >> reporter: to better figure that out while scott is in space, his twin ...

Journey began at birth. his parents never told him about his repository past, raising him as if he were just like any other child. but on the inside, written in his dna, was the genetic code for academic excellence. >> did you do well in school? >> oh, yeah, very well in school. when i got to high school, i actually started taking college courses as a freshman. i have a near identic memory, when i read something or hear it, it recalls faster than most people. >> been that way since you were a ki...

So for me to live forever, i need to hack my dna. >> we will eventually be able to write the code not only to fix our current mistakes but also to fix mistakes as we age. and thats going to be critical to living forever. there you go. >> thats nuts. >> correct copies of your dna. so if you want to access any of these sequences youll break the foil with the tip, add some liquid. >> brand new genome, just add water. that is remarkable. >> its kind of like evolution. >> are you guys playing god? >>...

Water. that is remarkable. >> its kind of like evolution. >> are you guys playing god? >> we are god. >> really? >> just like that, boom, they hacked my genetic code. and here, the ability to fix my problems. now i just have to wait up for technology to catch up with this so i can put it in my body safely. but the good thing is believe it or not, this will last a million years. much longer than you or me. or maybe not. ♪ abe! get in! punch it! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a...

Gallstones. >> he did that test to see what genetic illnesses i was predisposed to, to see what kind of things might shorten the length of my life no matter what i did. >> what if you could fix that problem, correct it as an adult or correct it before youre even born? >> turns out in the future even the information hard wired into our genetic code will be something you can change. >> how are you doing? >> hey, morgan. good to see you. >> austin heinz is the ceo of cambrian genomics. a startup. b...

>> thats crazy. >> so you can take out whats existing and put in what you want. >> dna is the building block of all life. nothing living on earth exists without it. its the unique genetic code that makes me me and you you. but our dna also contains mistakes, or mutations. and just one of those mutations can cause anything from a minor health problem to a deadly disease. austin is creating technology today that could change all of that in the future. >> so well look at your 23 m.e. test results. ...