While we were all being distracted by cat videos and meaningless tweets by celebrities and politicians:
“Biohackers have already signalled their intention to use CRISPR, which poses a big problem for the authorities.” Source: Backyard gene editing risks creating a monster | New Scientist, 15 March 2017.”
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The US Food and Drug Administration is allowing a dog breeder to use CRISPR to fix a harmful mutation. We are told that the FDA is trying not to stifle innovation.
By a dog breeder.
Close your eyes and imagine it is 1938. The German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann have just discovered nuclear fission. Now imagine they also discover ways to make that happen within reasonable reach of private parties at manageable costs. And can be performed in a barn somewhere out in the sticks.
The world might be a very different place.
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