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Posted onbyDr. Francis Collins

Heritable Gene Editing

Experts Conclude Heritable Human Genome Editing Not Ready for Clinical Applications

We stand at a critical juncture in the history of science. CRISPR and other innovative genome editing systems have given researchers the ability to make very precise changes in the sequence, or spelling, of the human DNA instruction book. If these tools are used to make non-heritable edits in only...

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