With this festival, founders Tracy Day and Brian Greene have cut short his process in advancing the world's intelligence. In this year's WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL panel, "Salon: Game Change — CRISPR's Brave New World," American researchers discuss the subject of new discoveries in gene manipulation, and their role in it. CRISPR means "Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats". It stands for the ancient immune system. "65 years ago we didn't know the genetic material at all," moderating cancer biologist Robert Benezra says, introducing the subject. "Today, we can look at software to redesign life." CRISPR, the American Association of Anatomist's 2015 breakthrough, is a way to genome editing, and was first detected in 1987 by Francisco Mojica. A human cell holds 20,000 genes. "The reproduction of genes in nature is complicated," says clinician scientist Stephen Tsang. "If you make it artificially, it becomes simple."