Gattaca or life-saving? Can we—should we—use CRISPR to edit human embryos, sperm or eggs to cure diseases?

Gattaca or life-saving? Can we—should we—use CRISPR to edit human embryos, sperm or eggs to cure diseases?

Tina Rulli |
The startling announcement by He Jiankui [two years] ago that he had created the first genetically modified human beings unleashed a ...
gene involved in embryo development identified using crisprcas

Viewpoint: Why CRISPR embryo editing is not ‘morally urgent’: No one has to have a child

STAT |
[He Jiankui’s CRISPR babies] brought to the surface common misunderstandings — even among scientists and ethicists — that reproductive uses of this ...