Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
...thus allowing repair to take place before DNA replication. Indeed, they observed that 41/42 embryos were... embryos carried indels at the mutation site, indicating that repair proceeded through NHEJ rather than...attributable to CRISPR editing.
Conclusions & implications
One striking feature of this paper is the failure... need to be much, much lower before clinical applications could be considered.
It is important to consider...experiments are needed before we can consider clinical applications for germline editing. Although this paper represents...