Thursday, April 23, 2015

Not Smart Enough

I personally think we are just not smart enough - and won't be for a very long time - to feel comfortable about the consequences of changing heredity, even in a single individual.

-- David Baltimore, a former president of the California Institute of Technology, on a call for a moratorium on using a gene editing technique to change human DNA, New York Times, 20 March 2015

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