Where human gene editing goes next

After the Human Gene Editing Summit, Tabitha M. Powledge discusses the state of human gene editing under the current web of political and legal restrictions: "In the U.S., that will mean no taxpayer funding can go to gene editing studies on human embryos, even the preliminary kind … That rule collides with [the summit's] recommendations, which encourage gene editing experiments on human eggs and sperm and embryos as long as they are not aimed at producing real babies."

December 12, 2015

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