Scientists have improved the way CRISPR works to an extent that permits increased accuracy in understanding a priori the effects will be on editing genes. So far the effets could be rather random with too much uncertainty.
The ability to edit out breast cancer will be a strong political motivation for liberal deregulation of genetic modification. The trouble with genetic engineering is that the changes are passed on to all of humanity through interbreeding. Hence mistakes can cancel out the entire human race in theory.
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-scientists-crispr-code-precise-human.html
Human beings sometimes makes errors and have less than perfect judgment. Maybe not in foreign relation or federal budget balancing, education or health care, yet I suspect that a possibility of creating irreversible errors in genetic editing is a real if vague possibility.
The ability to edit out breast cancer will be a strong political motivation for liberal deregulation of genetic modification. The trouble with genetic engineering is that the changes are passed on to all of humanity through interbreeding. Hence mistakes can cancel out the entire human race in theory.
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-scientists-crispr-code-precise-human.html
Human beings sometimes makes errors and have less than perfect judgment. Maybe not in foreign relation or federal budget balancing, education or health care, yet I suspect that a possibility of creating irreversible errors in genetic editing is a real if vague possibility.
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