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The Gene Editors of the Future Podcast aims to make science accessible, integrative, and socially responsible. Founded by Dr. Kalpana in 2020, it explores genetics, neuroscience, and biotech's impact on human behavior and society. The podcast takes an integrative approach, emphasizing interconnected systems in health and behavior. It aims to dispel fear of complexity and encourages collaboration between sciences. The podcast provides learning anchors and invites audience engagement. Ethics are core, and the focus aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals. The long-term vision includes conversations with researchers, academics, and students, emphasizing responsible use of scientific knowledge. The podcast values audience participation and aims to make complex science understandable while maintaining scientific rigor. Hello, hello, and welcome to GESC, the gene editors of the Future Podcast. In this episode, we introduce the vision behind and how it connects with our community mission to make science accessible, integrative, and socially responsible. The program and community were founded back in 2020 by our unique, esteemed Dr. Kalpana, whose passion for genetics and education has helped open scientific pathways to students from all backgrounds, far beyond biosciences. Genetics, neuroscience, and biotech aren't just changing medicine. They are rewriting the blueprint of human behavior and modern society. Yet for many, these topics can still feel distant or intimidating. Now, this podcast exists to change that. Rather than looking at genetics in isolation, we take an integrative approach. We explore genetics from A to Z, but we also look at how our inner and outer worlds interact. We consider the human mind, body, and spirit, and how they are shaped by stress, sleep, nutrition, and the environments we move through every day. One of the key aims of this podcast is to gently dispel the fear of what the term interdisciplinary approach can sometime create. Integration does not mean complexity for its own sake or knowing everything about everything. No, it's about seeing the whole scenario rather than just a single slide. It is about each branch of science, adding a piece to the puzzle, and reflecting how nature already works. Life makes sense because systems are interconnected. Genes do not act alone. Brains do not function in isolation. Health, behavior, and well-being emerge from systems working together. People thrive when they are part of a community. And this is exactly the perspective we explore here. Now to visualize this, let's look at an Airbus A380 or imagine a 22-story building ready to take off, carrying up to 800 people safely across continents. You know that you can travel 15,000 kilometers, which is kind of a 37% of the circumference of the Earth. Now, if that isn't impressive, I'm not sure what it is. Though, it takes off, flies, and lands, not because of a single component, but because countless components work together seamlessly. From hardware to software to humans involved, each plays a role in a vast, coordinated network. One body, more people, and more people. Multiple systems, each with its own subsystems. Science works the same way. When we view systems as connected rather than separate, human health and behavior begin to make sense. At the Gene Editors of the Future podcast, each editor follows the same principle. We start gently setting the scene. We take off slowly. We fly high, exploring one exciting territory at a time, always aiming to land clearly and safely. And instead of heavy terminology, each episode introduces a scientific concept to a kind of a story, something familiar for you to hold on. Once the meaning is clear, the importance of collaboration between the sciences becomes obvious. And at the end of each episode, we provide a learning anchor. This is one key idea to remember. Not a definition to memorize. No, no, no. But a mental handle to help the understanding stick. And we will see exactly how learning and memory formation work during one of our trips to the neuroscience land. That will be very soon. For those who wish to go further, an optional link is provided below each episode for more formal explanations and structured learning. Engagement, though, is always an invitation, never a requirement. Our approach is designed to help you build confidence in understanding complex ideas rather than just simply memorizing facts. As Westminster's Dragons of Excellence, a title we are honored to hold thanks to our vice chancellor, Professor Peter Bonfield, we treat ethics not as an add-on, but as the very core of science. Knowledge, we know, is a double-edged sword. And our mission is to ensure we contribute meaningfully to medicine, agriculture, and society. As biology grows more powerful, it is vital to understand how knowledge translates into real-world impact. And our perspective aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And we will frequently discuss how science relates to health, equity, and responsible innovation. The long-term vision for this podcast includes conversations with prestigious researchers, academics, and enthusiastic students. Our conversations focus not only on results, but how scientific knowledge is generated, interpreted, and responsibly used. For this reason, we value your direct participation, whether it's providing feedback on what we do, suggesting new topics, or actively contributing to the creative process. This is your platform as much as it is ours, a community asset designed to remain part of the gene editors of the future program to support outreach and learning for years to come. We are committed to making complex science understandable without losing its depth or scientific rigor. We start with meaning, we build understanding step-by-step, and we invite you to explore at your own pace. And now that our mission is clear, thank you for listening, dear dragons. Until next time, remember, we are gene editors of the future. Those words still send a shiver down my spine, and I hope you feel that shiver too. We are Westminster.