The lead scientist on the use of ‘base editing’ in very early embryos say that the technique is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry that the work will spur a rush to commercialization.

The lead scientist on the use of ‘base editing’ in very early embryos say that the technique is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry that the work will spur a rush to…

New York Times: A new gene-editing technique raises hopes and fears over designer babies.

A team in the US has reported promising results after using an improved form of CRISPR to gene-edit human embryos, but a major issue remains unsolved

Investigadores aplicaron una nueva técnica de edición de bases que corrige mutaciones sin causar daños masivos en el genoma, abriendo el camino a la ingeniería de embriones.

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