Should bioethicists just "get out of the way" of research on gene editing? Or should there be a moratorium on such research? Tabitha M. Powledge weighs in: "Discussing ethics might not slow progress, but the halt to gene-editing research demanded by several high-level scientists, whether temporary or permanent, surely would. And even if instituted, a moratorium would affect at most the U.S. and maybe some other Western countries." Also: the bard probably wasn't a pothead.
August 15, 2015
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