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#GeneEditing

Sounds about right! Why don't we finally shake off our sci-fi fears of Gattaca and Brave New World, and our obsession with resurgent Nazism, and get serious about gene editing—including for the species we care about most: our own? https://t.co/HOvVDLooA9 #GeneEditing #Gattaca #BraveNewWorld #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.Therefore #theresponseis:

Scientists have announced the successful use of a next-generation tool to precisely edit human embryos’ DNA, a major advance in the ability to tweak genes as life takes shape. 2 separate teams deployed base editing to swap one letter of DNA for another https://t.co/HtbQgA0YQ2 #GeneEditing #DNA #CRISPR #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.