What About Editing The Human Genome? How Long Till Congress Must Act?

Gene-editing or altering DNA to achieve a desired change in the characteristics of a person yet to be born, is a technology that holds both great promise for bettering the human condition and of creating, unintentionally or otherwise, bio-monsters capable of unimaginable horror. Molecular biologist Anjeanette Roberts points out on the Reasons to Believe blog…

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