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  • More evidence of the dangers of CRISPR: Stop playing God with the editing of human genes

    06/26/2020 7:33:37 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 06/26/2020 | By John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera
    [PHOTO:TELESUR] For years, I’ve worried and warned about the dangers posed by gene-editing technologies, such as CRISPR. In the words of one of its inventors, CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) makes the human genome “as malleable as a piece of literary prose at the mercy of an editor’s red pen.” At least, that’s the promise that has yet to materialize. In 2018, a Chinese scientist announced he’d used CRISPR to genetically modify human embryos. At the time, more “respectable” scientists denounced his actions as “unethical,” given how new the technology was and how little ethical oversight there was...