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The UK Just Green-Lit Crispr Gene Editing in Human Embryos
This is a controversial first step toward what some see as a future of designer babies. But it doesn't go nearly that far.
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Crispr Is Getting Better. Now It’s Time to Ask the Hard Ethical Questions
When Chinese scientists announced in April they had edited human embryos using a new genetic tool called Crispr, the headlines blared “designer babies” and the wider world woke up to Crispr’s power.
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Science Would Like Some Rules for Genome Editing, Please
At an international meeting in Washington, the bigwigs of Crispr/Cas9 try to sort out the ethics of editing DNA.
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The Nobel Committee Hasn’t Always Picked the Right Winners
Over its 114 year history, the Nobel Prize has been given to some bad science, and some bad scientists.
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The War Over Genome Editing Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Scientists have found a second CRISPR system that can edit human DNA.
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