Should-Read: Ryan Hagemann: The Coming Age of Genetic Modification: "Shoukhrat Mitalipov and a team of researchers at Oregon Health and Science University announced they had successfully altered human embryos with a mutation of the MYBPC3 gene...
...a defect that causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in 1 out of every 500 people, and is among the leading causes of sudden death for young athletes. If true (the research is still pending publication), this... would mark the first time such a modification was conducted using the CRISPR gene editing technology, demonstrating the technology’s ability to both safely and effectively excise abnormalities in an embryonic genome...
