Questioning the Go-Slow Approach to Human Germline Modification

Julia D. Mahoney & Gil Siegal, Beyond Nature? Genomic Modification and the Future of Humanity, 81 Law & Contemp. Probs. 195 (2018).

Carl Coleman

Over the past decade, the emergence of CRISPR-Cas-9 as a means to “edit” the human genome has brought human genetic modification out of the realm of science fiction and into the real world. This revolutionary technology enables users to “make specific and efficient modifications to a genome” through a process that is “simple, inexpensive, and remarkable effective.” A variety […]