Tag: CRISPR
Germ-Line Gene Editing Will Never Be Safe
The brains of two babies who were germ-line gene edited using the CRISPR process — meaning the engineered genetic changes will flow down the generations.
Encore Performances in the Design of Life
News from Princeton discusses the work of Tom Smith and Bridgett vonHoldt, who have solved a “long-standing finch beak mystery.” The answer turned out to be Mendelian, not Darwinian.
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Born: Life as Potter’s Clay
The birth of gene-edited children — which I discussed here just yesterday — has been confirmed.
Eugenics Revisited: Scientists on the Verge of Genetically Engineering Babies
CRISPR is the most powerful technology invented since the splitting of the atom.
With Gene Editing, Scientists Perilously Push Borders of Biotechnology
Such manipulations, if ever done in humans, could a profound impact on human society going down the generations.