Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
...While repair using endogenous chromosomal DNA is appealing for heterozygous mutations, it will clearly be...consider that already-tested CRISPR alternatives are applicable in many situations. In the case of hypertrophic... need to be much, much lower before clinical applications could be considered.
It is important to consider...consider the question of broader applicability of CRISPR germline editing. Nature News mentions that the...between CRISPR repair in embryos and iPS models, it appears that embryo research is the only way to answer ...answer questions of efficiency and applicability. Given moral and ethical concerns surrounding such research...experiments are needed before we can consider clinical applications for germline editing. Although this paper represents...