I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.

There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.