In 2017 Scientists reported selectively altering genes in viable human embryos for the first time. Just this year the UK Nuffield Council on Bioethics took the position that changing a human embryo’s DNA could be morally permissible if it was…
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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…