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Healthcare: Yahoo News: U.S. science leaders to tackle ethics of gene-editing technology
Submitted by J.W. Bizzaro; posted on Monday, May 18, 2015
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The leading U.S. scientific organization, responding to concerns expressed by scientists and ethicists, has launched an ambitious initiative to recommend guidelines for new genetic technology that has the potential to create "designer babies."
The technology, called CRISPR-Cas9, allows scientists to edit virtually any gene they target. The technique is akin to a biological word-processing program that finds and replaces genetic defects.
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