The Moral Choices on CRISPR Babies

This post is presented in collaboration with the American Journal of Bioethics. You can read the entire issue by clicking here. by Sheldon Krimsky In late November 2018, Chinese scientist Dr. He Jiankui announced at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong that he had used CRISPR/Cas 9 gene editing on two female embryos that were brought to term through an in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancy. The world scientific community was ill-prepared for the announcement since the moral issues surrounding the editing of human embryos were under discussion but hardly resolved.…
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