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Hank Greely Human Germline Modification Post

April 10, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Hank Greely over at The Center for Law and Biosciences at Stanford Law School was one of the participants in the recent Napa meeting on approaches to human germline genetic modification. Hank was also one of the authors on the resulting position paper in Science with David Baltimore as first author (here). Now Hank, pictured below, […]

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George Church on Germline Human Genetic Modification

March 9, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 17 Comments

I recently interviewed leading genomics scientist George Church on the ways that trends in genomics are changing our world. We also discussed the possibility of heritable human genetic modification. These days we more often call this “CRISPR babies.” His answers suggest that genomics and gene editing are poised to radically change our world. They could literally

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