Should CRISPR Be Used to Edit Human Genes to Treat Genetic Diseases?February 13, 2019 |
Experts, including our Jeffrey Kahn, weigh in on gene-editing technology
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We Won’t Use CRISPR to Make Super-Smart BabiesJanuary 18, 2019 |
But only because we can’t. Gene experts speculate that our worst gene-editing fears won’t come true because they are too complex for us to pull them off
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In My Own Blood I Have Written the Things Important to MeJanuary 10, 2019 |
Adrien Locatelli, a French teenager claims to have injected DNA strands encoding verses from the Bible and the Quran in his thighs
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The world urgently needs better international oversight of “genome editing in human embryos for reproductive purposes,” says an editorial co-written by the heads of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. National Academy of Medicine
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Second Woman Implanted With Genetically Modified Embryo, Scientist SaysNovember 28, 2018 |
He Jiankui, who claims to have produced the world’s first genetically modified babies, faced critics at a Hong Kong conference. Article includes comments from our Jeffrey Kahn
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An Outsider Claimed to Make Genome-Editing HistoryNovember 27, 2018 |
And the world snapped to attention. Using YouTube rather than an academic journal, He claimed that with the aid of CRISPR, he had helped create the world’s first babies — twin girls born a few weeks ago — whose genomes had been edited as embryos
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Scientist’s Claim of Gene-Edited Babies Creates UproarNovember 26, 2018 |
A Chinese scientist triggered confusion, alarm and shock across the scientific community Monday with the claim that he had edited the DNA of twin baby girls, Lulu and Nana, who he said had been born “crying into the world as healthy as any other babies” a few weeks ago
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We Are Merging With Robots. That’s a Good Thing.August 13, 2018 |
The old boundaries of the human self are being blurred by technology. The risks are real, but the potential is astounding
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Real progress is being made using CRISPR and related gene-editing techniques to alter cells taken from people with diseases such as sickle cell and genetic forms of blindness. These approaches are likely to offer safer and more reliable ways of making changes to a person at the genetic level. What makes these uses much less ethically challenging [than germline editing] is that they only affect the person being treated; the genetic modifications can’t be passed on to future generations.