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Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
In 2016, I attended a large meeting of journalists in Washington, DC. The keynote speaker was Jennifer Doudna, who just a few years before had co-invented CRISPR, a revolutionary method of changing genes that was sweeping across biology labs because it was so easy to use. With its discovery, Doudna explained, humanity had achieved the…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/22/1096458/crispr-gene-editing-babies-evolution/
In 2016, I attended a large meeting of journalists in Washington, DC. The keynote speaker was Jennifer Doudna, who just a few years before had co-invented CRISPR, a revolutionary method of changing genes that was sweeping across biology labs because it was so easy to use. With its discovery, Doudna explained, humanity had achieved the…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/22/1096458/crispr-gene-editing-babies-evolution/