Crispr Gene Editing Can Lead to Big Mistakes in Human Embryos

Author: chapulin

Score: 8

Comments: 1

Date: 2020-10-29 15:27:59

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dekhn wrote at 2020-10-29 15:45:51:

I remember back when, George Church was insisting that crispr was perfect, and didnt' make off-site modifications. He shut up about that pretty quickly when his own data demonstrated otherwise.

CRISPR is a great research tool. Useful for direct modification of human embryos? Not yet, maybe never.