Jiankui He: A Sorry Tale of High-Stakes Science
In response to news of the world’s first babies born in China from gene-edited embryos, Sam Sternberg, a CRISPR/Cas9 researcher at Columbia University, spoke for many when he said “I’ve long suspected that scientists, somewhere, would rush to claim the ‘prize’ of being first to apply CRISPR clinically to edit the DNA of human embryos,… Read more
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Education Health Care bioethics Crisspr gene editing Hastings Bioethics Forum human gene editing Human Reproduction Jiankui He syndicated Source Type: blogs
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