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CRISPR in individual humans sounds potentially great. Touching the germ line is a hard pass.
by hprotagonist 8y ago
CRISPR in individual humans sounds potentially great.
Touching the germ line is a hard pass.
- all2 8y agoWhat, you don't want to wipe out half the planet's ability to procreate in a single generation? (the genocidal maniacs and overpopulation buffs are going to be all over this, maybe, if one of them has the guts and the brains)
- logicallee 8y agowhat are you referring to?
- VectorLock 8y agoIf a change to the gene line prevented procreation it would eliminate itself pretty quickly. Unless we changed half of the already born world's genes all at once.
- eggie 8y ago> CRISPR in individual humans sounds potentially great Nuclease based editing with CRISPR is only going to be able to disable things in somatic tissues. You need to include exogenous DNA template in order to evoke precise allele changes, and that's really only possible in vitro.