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Nov 16, 2016

CRISPR gene-editing tested in a person for the first time

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, genetics

I said over a year ago that if the US will not do it China will. Whilst there was talk about a moratorium on CRISPR in the US the Chinese were forging ahead and taking steps to become a world leader in biotech. Well here we are, they have deployed CRISPR in humans for cancer and this is only the start. As George Church advocates, we should have appropriate engineering safety measures in place but we should push ahead and do these things.


The move by Chinese scientists could spark a biomedical duel between China and the United States.

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