The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing

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Publish Date:

September 2, 2023

Author(s):

Goodyear, Dana

Source:

The New Yorker

Related Person(s):

Related Organization(s):

Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology,
Center for Law and the Biosciences

Summary

The researchers, who soon published their work, had designed the experiment carefully, balancing on the threshold of societal acceptance; they worked with nonviable embryos and did not transfer them into a uterus. “They were covering their butts,” Greely, the Stanford professor, said. “When they were criticized, they could say, ‘We didn’t implant, and it wouldn’t even have worked if we did.’ ”