Gotta start somewhere. If China wants to leverage its utter disregard for human lives towards scientific advancement, it would be colonialist of us to object.
So his action spurred more research, and now we know that variant is associated with a fairly trivial extra risk. This is how trial and error looks like, and we should do MORE of it not less.https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1135563556777103362 …
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Downplaying the risk of trial and error potentially polluting the human gene pool irreversibly with serious genetic diseases created accidentally through gene editing is a markedly weak position to take.
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>irreversibly Changing a few people to get homozyg. of some variant is not a irreversible change. Obviously, one could easily undo it next generation with the same technology.
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