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CRISPR baby moratorium grows likely with rising tide of support including from biotech

April 28, 2019 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

Trying to make a CRISPR baby any time soon would be a really bad idea. How bad? Last December 3rd I penned a piece for STAT News arguing for a moratorium on the heritable use of CRISPR in humans. This potential future, radical application of “gene editing” is now often colloquially referred to as “CRISPR …

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NAS Meeting on Human Germline Modification Taking Shape

September 14, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will hold a meeting on heritable human germline modification on December 1-3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Invitations to the NAS meeting to individuals starting going out last week. The upcoming NAS meeting seeks to address these issues and discuss the possibility of a moratorium on clinical use of …

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