“Eugenics was not unique to the Nazis It could — and did — happen everywhere.” Daniel Kevles, a historian of science, NY University In 2018, a Chinese scientist announced he’d used CRISPR to genetically modify human embryos. At the time,…
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CRISPR, Another Name for Eugenics
As early as 2015, experts were raising biosecurity concerns about the genome-editing technology CRISPR. The FBI, the Pentagon, and the U.N.’s bioweapons office were warning that the most powerful use of gene-editing, aka “gene drive,” could become a tool of…